Advice for a Dictator And for Those Who Want to Become One
by Joseph Goebbels
The source: “Goldene Worte für einen Diktator und für solche, die es werden wollen,” Wetterleuchten. Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1939), pp. 325-327.
1. A dictatorship requires three things: a man, an idea, and a following ready to live for the man and the idea, and if necessary to die for them. If the man is lacking it is…
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