Mein Kampf

by Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf is one of the most widely known and heavily quoted books of all time. It demonstrates both Hitler's ability to persuade and his ability to instill a sense of heroic destiny.

It is a retrospective on history, politics, and a guide to achieving power from the point of view of Adolf Hitler.

It has become a dictators' manual, which has been read by all major dictators since World War II including Sadam Hussein

The truth is that only a small part of Mein Kampf is anti-Semitic.

Germany did not follow Hitler because he was a racist, they followed him because he promised a great future, and Mein Kampf is where he promised that great future.

"My Struggle" and "My Battle" for the people.

Today, many people accept Hitler's contention that human existence is controlled by the laws of an eternal conflict and struggle for a greater good.

This is by definition the classic Hero's Struggle.

I know that men are more rarely won over by the written word than they are by the spoken word and that every great movement in this world owes its growth to great speakers, not to great writers.

parental authority over his child's future.

I learned to understand the meaning of history.

To truly "learn" history means to open your eyes and discover the forces that cause historical events to happen. The art of reading and of learning means

remembering the important parts and forgetting the unimportant.

More than anyone else, he gave us an understanding of the current problems.

Their names were Marxism and Jewry.

wisdom of age,

honest labor is no disgrace, no matter what kind of labor it may be.

The insecurity of one's daily bread soon became one of the darkest aspects of my new life.

there are likely to be scenes that would wring tears from a stone.

Instead, we must overcome the fundamental weaknesses in the organization of our economic and cultural life.

a boy of three years. This is the age when a child first becomes conscious of things around him. Gifted people carry memories of that period far into old age.

The people are not living with one another; they are merely living in the same place, squeezed together.

The ability to "nationalize" a people is primarily a question of creating healthy social conditions that can be used to educate the individual.

You can fight only for something you love. You can love only what you respect. You can respect only what you know.

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

His intellect is not filled with his own life experiences,

A speaker who does not study the materials to back up the issues he deals with will never be able to fight effectively for his opinion when challenged, even if it is absolutely true.

(Babylonian Empire is a reference to the Tower of Babel story where the people were cursed to speak different languages and scattered around the world.)

I thought Socialism and Social Democracy were identical ideas.

The theory is intended for stupid dupes of the middle and upper "levels of intelligence";

Like a woman, whose spiritual perceptions are attracted more by the strength of a leader than the reason

After all, they have no clue about the doctrine's internal error. They only see the ruthless strength and brutality of its expression, which they always yield to.

The preservation of honor and faith in a nation is a national interest just as much as the preservation of the people's health.

The nation's faith and public health are seriously threatened by unworthy business operators who do not feel themselves to be members of the people's community.

political privileged-class failed to understand,

This is how I came to understand mankind.

humility of our people who think something is deep and wise just because they don't understand

A knowledge of the Jews is the necessary key to grasping the real intentions of Social Democracy.

That's when I encountered the Jewish question.

my question changed from, "Is that a Jew?" to "Is that a German?"

contradicted to the moral dignity and pure character their race had always prided itself upon.

The relationship of Jewry to prostitution and, even more, to white slavery itself could be studied in Vienna

I then had the happy satisfaction of knowing for certain that the Jew was no German.

As I have said before, every great and world-shaking event has been produced by the spoken word and not by the written word.

There is also the fact that the masses of people are lazy by nature.

So a picture is worth a thousand words.

historical revolutions have never been produced by authors, but accompanied by their written words.

Just as a courageous man can conquer a woman's heart more easily than a coward,

The best defensive weapon is attack.

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