One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.