Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

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.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

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

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

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

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.