The day of individual happiness has passed.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.