German political leader.
He founded National Socialism; started WW II; and engineered the Holocaust murder of over six million Jews.
The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . .
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.