…this way. I mean, let us take, after all, a piece of very recent and very painful history, is the propaganda used by Hitler, which was incredibly effective. I mean, what were Hitler's methods? Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one…

…very recent and very painful history, is the propaganda used by Hitler, which was incredibly effective. I mean, what were Hitler's methods? Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one hand, but he also used a very efficient form of…

…remarkable book, George Orwell's 1984. But this book was written at the height of the Stalinist regime and just after the Hitler regime. And there he foresaw a dictatorship using entirely the methods of terror, the methods of physical violence. Now, I think…

…dictator whose methods of propaganda are simply the methods of using language very effectively but using it very badly. I mean, Hitler explained in Mein Kampf very accurately how this has to be done. Never consider any problem except dogmatically. There must…

…a profound meaning and is of enormous importance particularly in a world like ours where there have been grand inquisitors like Hitler and incidentally you can find quotations in Hitler almost identical with those of the Well, the Grand Inquisitor, I don't…

…particularly in a world like ours where there have been grand inquisitors like Hitler and incidentally you can find quotations in Hitler almost identical with those of the Well, the Grand Inquisitor, I don't think he got the title of the Grand Inquisitor,…

…from the appalling responsibility of being free. This is practically word for word what the Grand Inquisitor was saying, and I think Hitler probably quite as sincerely as he did. But what really frightened me was to find that a group of very nice,…

…out of people's minds. This is the very common danger that led to all these other inquisitors that you spoke about, like Hitler, like the idealists. These people put themselves up as little gods, and you had to manipulate people, and there was really no…

…There must be some way, isn't there, that we should be able to challenge them? We can certainly challenge the validity of Hitler because we know that people do vary very greatly among one another individually, and that Hitler was flying in the face of…

…can certainly challenge the validity of Hitler because we know that people do vary very greatly among one another individually, and that Hitler was flying in the face of biological fact, actually. But I mean, take this question of, I mean, how do we…

…is the stained glass window against the four bars. Yes, but the answering, giving the oil to Jesus' feet is what brought Hitler and Mussolini into being, which destroyed all aesthetic values. I don't think that's very relevant. Well, this may be, but this…

…if about 25% can go over like this to any successful demagogue, then there will always be the resistant people. I mean, Hitler speaks about this in Mein Kampf. He says the folk are really healthy because they will follow the leader, but these horrible…

…of course, we've witnessed the most rise and fall of two of the most frightful dictatorships. I mean, the dictatorship of Hitler and the dictatorship of Stalin. And of course, it was in response to those dictatorships that Orwell wrote his book, 1984.…

…in 47, 48, as I remember. and this was a projection into the future of the immediate past of those years, the past of Hitler and the still present dictatorship of Stalin. I greatly admire 1984. I think it's a very remarkable book. But my own feeling is…

…done. It's horrible, their total destruction. Well, I mean, there's this beautiful term, liquidation, which is the same thing which Hitler used and Stalin used in regard to the heretics. But these red-sheet trees are now completely liquidated, and you see…

…this way. I mean, let us take, after all, a piece of very recent and very painful history is the propaganda used by Hitler, which was incredibly effective. I mean, what were Hitler's methods? Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one…

…very recent and very painful history is the propaganda used by Hitler, which was incredibly effective. I mean, what were Hitler's methods? Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one hand, But he also used a very efficient form of…

…remarkable book, George Orwell's 1984. Well, this book was written at the height of the Stalinist regime and just after the Hitler regime. And there he foresaw a dictatorship using entirely the methods of terror, the methods of physical violence. Now, I…

…this way. I mean, let us take, after all, a piece of very recent and very painful history as the propaganda used by Hitler, which was incredibly effective. I mean, what were Hitler's methods? Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one…

…very recent and very painful history as the propaganda used by Hitler, which was incredibly effective. I mean, what were Hitler's methods? Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one hand, But he also used a very efficient form of…

…remarkable book, George Orwell's 1984. But this book was written at the height of the Stalinist regime and just after the Hitler regime. And there he foresaw a dictatorship using entirely the methods of terror, the methods of physical violence. Now, I think…

…of course, we've witnessed the most rise and fall fall of two of the most frightful dictatorships. I mean, the dictatorship of Hitler and the dictatorship of Stalin. And of course, it was in response to those dictatorships that Orwell wrote his book, 1984.…

…in 47, 48, as I remember. And this was a projection into the future of the immediate past of those years, the past of Hitler and the still present dictatorship of Stalin. I greatly admire 1984. I think it's a very remarkable book. But my own feeling is…

…elections example in recent years of what can be done by efficient methods of suggestion and persuasion in the form of Hitler anybody who's read for example Bullock's Life of Hitler comes forth from this with a sort of horrified admiration for this…

…done by efficient methods of suggestion and persuasion in the form of Hitler anybody who's read for example Bullock's Life of Hitler comes forth from this with a sort of horrified admiration for this infernal genius who really understood human weaknesses I…

…have mechanisms for multiplying the demagogue's voice and image in a quite hallucinatory way. I mean, the television and the radio, Hitler was making enormous use of the radio. He could speak to millions of people simultaneously. I mean, this alone, of…

…enormous field of potentialities, both for evil and for good. We may be something absolutely monstrous, as was revealed during the Hitler regime, or we may be something devoted and heroic and self-sacrificing. And one of the paradoxes of human life is that…

…should go on right through adult life. It is quite clear that we saw this perfectly clearly in the days of Hitler, that an abuse of language when used systematically in conjunction with the modern methods of broadcasting communications can be immensely…

…modern methods of broadcasting communications can be immensely powerful. in eliciting the most undesirable potentialities in man. And as Hitler had a formula for propaganda, he said specifically, you must confine yourself to very, very simple slogans, a very…

…should go on right through adult life. It is quite clear that we saw this perfectly clearly in the days of Hitler, that an abuse of language when used systematically in conjunction with the modern methods of broadcasting communications can be immensely…

…modern methods of broadcasting communications can be immensely powerful in eliciting the most undesirable potentialities in man. And as Hitler had a formula for propaganda, he said specifically, you must confine yourself to very, very simple slogans, a very…

…unfortunately, this is also the record of the first religious war. Cain, if you remember, was a husbandman, a vegetarian, like Hitler. And Abel was a herdsman. and a meat eater, and they were divided passionately evidently on their different occupations and…

…just as well for evil as for good. And of course, we have seen in our own time this terrifying spectacle of Hitler very nearly conquering the entire world through the power of belief in something which was not only manifestly untrue, but also profoundly…

…other hand, we find that language can be most horribly effective in promoting action, especially bad action. Let us listen to what Hitler has to say in relation to language as a promoter of bad action. To be effective, he wrote, Propaganda must confine…

…moment of unconsciousness, complete unconsciousness, when he can forget his ego It's a beautiful thought, I think, to feel that even a Hitler, even a Himmler, even a Genghis Khan, even a Jay Gould, even a Richelieu, pardon, no offense meant, can forget for…

…of crisis, the governmental authorities have gone out of their way to prevent people escaping into their private lives. Both Hitler and the Russians had the strongest objection to permitting people to live in their private world. They insisted upon their…

…finally banished and here there is this dreadful and grotesque paradox that the prosperity of the West was due to the phenomenon of Hitler and today we see the same thing that the fear of Russian competition which entails the putting out of vast sums of…

…technicize ourselves much more than we want to do. And this, it seems to me, is in fact what is happening everywhere. Hitler had a very interesting remark on this subject. In Mein Kampf, where he's talking about the effectiveness of propaganda, he says,…