“Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it. During the War the heaviest of penalties had to be paid for that ignorance.
-- Mein Kampf, Chapter 10”
“Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.”
“لقد كان في وسعي أن أقضي على كل يهود العالم ولكني تركت بعضا منهم لتعرفوا لماذا كنت أبيدهم”
“The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.”
“The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.”
“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of history can never be to learn historical dates and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this battle or that was fought, when a general was born, or even when a monarch (usually a very insignificant one) came into the crown of his forefathers. No, by the living God, this is very unimportant. To 'learn' history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events.”
“The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.”
“Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.”
“He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.”
“لقد اكتشفت مع الأيام أنه ما من فعلٍ مغايرٍ للأخلاق, وما من جريمة بحق المجتمع إلا ولليهود يداً فيها”
“While the Zionists try to make the rest of the World believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn't even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organisation for their international world swindler, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.
It is a sign of their rising confidence and sense of security that at a time when one section is still playing the German, French-man, or Englishman, the other with open effrontery comes out as the Jewish race.”
“إن لم تكن تعلم أين تذهب فكل الطرق تفي بالغرض .”
“Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.”
“إنّ الانسان لايُناضل إلا من أجل مايُحِبّ، ولايُحِبّ إلا ماهو حريٌّ بالتقدير والاحترام، فكيف يُطلب من مواطن أن يُحبّ وطنه ويُقدّرُه وهو يجهل تاريخه ولايشعر في قرارة نفسه بأنّه ينعم بما تُؤمّنُه الدول الأخرى لرعاياها من أمن ورفاهية.”
“The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.”
“I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age- which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life- and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thoughts and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance. These furnish the building materials and plans for the future; and it is from them that age takes the stones and builds the edifice, unless the so-called wisdom of the years may have smothered the creative genius of youth.”
“Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.”
“There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.”
“ليسَ العُمّال بمسؤولين عمّا تُعانيه البلاد من مشاكل، فالمسؤولون هم أولئك الذين لم يُحمّلوا أنفسهم عناء الاهتمام بحالة الشعب والعمل على إنصافه ووضع حَدّ لتضليل المُضللين وفساد الفاسدين.”
“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.”
“The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.”
“Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is less defensive than offensive. It therefore has the advantage even in determining the goal, since this goal represents the victory of its own idea, while, conversely,it is hard to determine when the negative aim of the destruction of a hostile doctrine may be regarded as achieved and assured. For this reason alone, the philosophy's offensive will be more systematic and also more powerful than the defensive against a philosophy, since here, too, as always, the attack and not the defence makes the decision. The fight against a spiritual power with methods of violence remains defensive, however, until the sword becomes the support,the herald and disseminator, of a new spiritual doctrine.”
“أليس من سخرية القدر أن يفصل الجهلة فى القضايا السياسية الخطيرة مثلا لتضيع اراء الصفوة فى زحمة الثرثرة والصراخ ؟. أليس من العار أن تترك مقدرات أمة تحت رحمة مواطنين يتصرفون بهذه المقدرات بخفة ومجون كما لو كانو يلعبون الورق؟؟؟”
“الفقر هو صنو الجهل وصنو المرض , ومتى اجتمع الثلاثة كفر الشعب بالدولة ومات فى النفوس كل شعور وطنى.”
“ان رجلا يتهرب من تحمل مسؤولية عمل ويبحث دائما عمن يغطيه ليس له من الرجولة أكثر من الأسم , انه جبان . بل حقير . والأمة التى يكون زعمائها من هذا الطراز لا تلبس أن تعانى أوخم النتائج.”
“ما نسميه " الرأى العام " لا يرتكز دائما على الخبرة الشخصية ومعرفة الأفراد معرفة حقيقية , فهو فى الغالب خاضع لتأثير الدعاوة التى توجه يوما فيوما وتنفث سمومها فى دمه دون أن يشعر . ان الصحافة هى التى تتولى تنشئة الجمهور سياسيا بما تنشر من أخبار وتبث من اراء.”
“The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.”
“ان تحويل الشعب الى أمة خلاقة يفترض قيام وسط اجتماعى سليم يعمل على تنشئة المواطن تنشئة وطنية .., فليس يستشعر الاعتزاز بالانتماء الى بلد ما الا من يتعلم فى البيت والمدرسة حب الوطن ويقدر أمجاده فى ميادين الفكر والسياسة والاقتصاد . ان الانسان لا يناضل الا من أجل ما يحب , ولا يحب الا ما هو حرى بالتقدير والاحترام”
“أليس من العار أن تترك مقدرات أمّة تحت رحمة مواطنين يتصرفون بهذه المقدرات بخفّة و مجون كما لو كانوا يلعبون الورق ..”
“لا يحق لدولة أن تفرض احترامها على الشعب عندما تعبث بالمصالح العامة وتتعمد الحاق الأذى بهذا الشعب . و أن سلطة الدولة لا يمكن أن تكون غاية بحد ذاتها , والا كان كل طغيان مكرسا ومقدسا . وعندما تقود الحكومة الشعب الى الخراب بشتى الوسائل والامكانيات يصبح عصيان كل فرد من أفراد الشعب حقا من حقوقه, بل واجبا وطنيا .”
“If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
“I don’t need made-up strength. I’m strong enough on my own—me, Meira, no magic or conduit or anything.”
“Winning at money is 80 percent behavior and 20 percent head knowledge. What to do isn’t the problem; doing it is. Most of us know what to do, but we just don’t do it. If I can control the guy in the mirror, I can be skinny and rich.”
“Use your head; cut off theirs.”
“It dispelled, on the spot—something, to the elder woman’s ear, in the sad, sweet sound of it—any ghost of any need of explaining. The sense was constant for her that their relation might have been afloat, like some island of the south, in a great warm sea that represented, for every conceivable chance, a margin, an outer sphere, of general emotion; and the effect of the occurrence of anything in particular was to make the sea submerge the island, the margin flood the text. The great wave now for a moment swept over. ‘I’ll go anywhere else in the world you like.”
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