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

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.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.”

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.

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.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.