We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.