As in everything, nature is the best instructor.”

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually, they’ll believe.

His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn’t wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I respected my father. But I loved my mother.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.