Man Has Become Great Through Struggle

The Receptivity Of The Masses Is Very Limited, Their Intelligence Is Small, But Their Power Of Forgetting Is Enormous. In Consequence Of These Facts, All Effective Propaganda Must Be Limited To A Very Few Points And Must Harp On These In Slogans Until The Last Member Of The Public Understands What You Want Him To Understand By Your Slogan.

Paris Must Either Not Fall Into The Hands Of The Enemy Or The Enemy Must Find It Only A Wasteland.

I Am Quite Sure That Very Few Of The So-called Reds In Spain Were Really Communists. We Were Badly Deceived, For, Had I Known The Real State Of Affairs, I Would Never Have Allowed Our Aircraft To Bombard And Destroy A Starving Population And At The Same Time Re-establish The Spanish Clergy In All Their Horrible Privileges. (10th February 1945)

It Is A Quite Special Secret Pleasure How The People Around Us Fail To Realize What Is Really Happening To Them.

The Parliamentary Principle Of Vesting Legislative Power In The Decision Of The Majority Rejects The Authority Of The Individual And Puts A Numerical Quota Of Anonymous Heads In Its Place. In Doing So It Contradicts The Aristocratic Principle, Which Is A Fundamental Law Of Nature.