August Friedrich Kellner Quotes

I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see that collapse in German culture. There is no chance that anyone could become a Nazi by reading that book.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

It was only a generation ago that we learned that the burning of books may precede the burning of people.

Before Hitler could kill 6 million Jews, he had to burn 6 million books.

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer.

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.

They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

Sasha, aren’t you a good communist? How can you allow so much ideological freedom? Do something!.

I thank God we have no free schools nor printing .... for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world; and printing has divulged them and libels against the government. God keep us from both.

There is no independence of law against National Socialism. Say to yourselves at every decision which you make: "How would the Fuhrer decide in my place?

The poisoning of the civil discourse always accompanies totalitarian movements.

...the worst horror of the Russian Revolution was the letting loose of one hundred million orators, for their passion for talk was immediately responsible for all the other horrors ...Oratory prevented Russia from becoming a constitutional country

The student body of the University of Freiburg announces that it is determined to carry the fight against Jewish-Marxist undermining of Germany to the bitter end, to the complete annihilation of the foe. The public burnings of Jewish-Marxist writings on May 10, 1933, served as a symbol of this fight. Germans, rally to this fight! Make your participation public! From the publishers and bookstores send us all books and writings that deserve burning. Let each one bring what he finds, or tell us about it so that we may go get it. The fire of destruction is to us like a blazing up of the German spirit and German custom and practice.

Adolf Hitler: The Great One

Love of totalitarian propaganda is more evil than hatred.

They didn't begin telling the truth in the Soviet Union until after it collapsed, did they?

In 1917, with the Bolsheviks, you had intra-elite conversations about what the country should be doing. You had arguments. Under Stalin, you didn’t really. But then after Stalin, you started having those arguments again.

Speech has never defeated fascism.

Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.