Difficult Quote by Tim Wu

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

— Wilhelm Reich

Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.

— Tim Wu

“The demagogic propagandist must therefore be consistently dogmatic. All his statements are made without qualification. There are no grays in his picture of the…

— Aldous Huxley

Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the…

— John Keegan

“Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no…

— Albert Speer

“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.”

— Marc Bloch

Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.

— Rudolf Hess

“ Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the “higher power” of nature.”

— Erich Fromm

“Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the saying all the screaming passion which…

— Upton Sinclair

Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners…

— Ian Kershaw

[Adolf Hitler] tried to make people feel at ease, he made that effort.

— Gretl Braun

“When Hitler appealed to the German voters and asked for their trust, he could muster only one argument in his favour: his experiences in…

— Yuval Noah Harari