Mein Kampf Quotes

Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

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.

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

Adolf Hitler: The Great One

I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see that collapse in German culture. There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book.

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Hitler—this bloodthirsty guttersnipe.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

Mein Kampf, this terrible book of Adolph Hitler is outlawed. I made a point in the Dutch parliament that I say to all these liberal politicians and socialist politicians in my own parliament that, "Hey you are very happy here, you applauded the fact that Mein Kampf was outlawed in the Netherlands. If you are really consistent, you should, for the same arguments that you use as liberal politicians to outlaw Mein Kampf, outlaw the Koran as well."

The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

Hitler is a queer fellow who will never become Chancellor. The best he can hope for is to head the Postal Department.

Think of the prelude to World War Two. Think of all the countries that said, well, we don’t have enough evidence. I mean, Mein Kampf had been written. Hitler had indicated what he intended to do. The people who argued for waiting for more evidence have to ask themselves how they are going to feel at that point where another event occurs.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

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

Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism.

The Koran is a fascist book which incites violence. That is why this book, just like [Adolf Hitler's] Mein Kampf, must be banned.

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Gutenberg, your printing press has been violated by this evil book, Mein Kampf!

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