Mein Kampf

"Once, when passing through the Inner City [of Vienna], I suddenly encountered a phenomenon in a long caftan and wearing black sidelocks. My first thought was; Is this a Jew? They certainly did not have this appearance in Linz. I watched the man stealthily and cautiously; but the longer I gazed at that strange countenance and examined it feature by feature, the more the question shaped itself in my brain: Is this a German?"

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

"Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses."

"I know people who read enormously, book for book, letter for letter, yet whom I would not describe as well-read. True they possess a mass of knowledge, but their brain is unable to organize and register the material they have taken in."

"And so I believe today 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."

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

"It was obvious, however, that this kind of anti-Semitism did not upset the Jews very much, simply because it had a purely religious foundation. If the worst came to the worst a few drops of baptismal water would settle the matter, hereupon the Jew could still carry on his business safely and at the same time retain his Jewish nationality."

"[...] the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party [...] was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study."

"The anti-Semitism of the new movement [Christian Social Party] was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge."

"The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread. In its most extreme form, parliamentarianism created a monstrosity of excrement and fire, in which, however, sad to say, the fire seems to me at the moment to be burned out."

"[During WWI] As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the first flare, there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich, for whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven."

"I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers."