Mein Kampf: My Struggle (Popular Life Stories)

by Adolf Hitler

To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events. The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

In that unhappy alliance between the young German Empire and the illusory Austrian State lay the germ of the World War and also of the final collapse.

I can fight only for something that I love. I can love only what I respect. And in order to respect a thing I must at least have some knowledge of it.

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticize or complain.

If Social Democracy should be opposed by a more truthful teaching, then even, though the struggle be of the bitterest kind, this truthful Teaching will finally prevail provided it be enforced with equal Ruthlessness.

I believe to-day that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the handiwork of the Lord.

Does anybody honestly believe that human progress originates in the composite brain of the majority and not in the brain of the individual personality?

we must not forget that the highest aim of human existence is not the maintenance of a State of Government but rather the conservation of the race.

The force which has ever and always set in motion great historical avalanches of religious and political movements is the magic power of the spoken word.

The higher the final goal which we strive to reach, and the less it be understood at the time by the broad masses, the more magnificent will be its success.

It shall be a greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich, even as a street-sweeper, than to be the King of a foreign State.

according to the National Socialist concept it is not obedience to weak superiors that should prevail at such moments, in such an hour the duty of assuming personal responsibility towards the whole nation makes its appearance.

Once the people are brought to believe that they can buy a little house with their savings they will devote themselves to the task of increasing their savings and no spare time will be left to them for the political struggle against those who, in one way or another, will one day secure possession of the pennies that have been saved.

At the beginning of the War, or even during the War, if twelve or fifteen thousand of these Jews who were corrupting the nation had been forced to submit to poison-gas, just as hundreds of thousands of our best German workers from every social stratum and from every trade and calling had to face it in the field, then the millions of sacrifices made at the front would not have been in vain.