
21. It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively and
clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the several parts of
the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion is inevitable that a satisfactory
form of government for any country is one that concentrates in the hands of one
responsible person. Without an absolute despotism there can be no existence for
civilization which is carried on not by the masses but by their guide, whosoever that
person may be. The mob is savage, and displays its savagery at every opportunity.
The moment the mob seizes freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in
itself is the highest degree of savagery.
22. Behold the alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, the right to an immoderate
use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours to walk that road.
The peoples of the GOYIM are bemused with alcoholic liquors; their youth has grown
stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which it has been inducted by our
special agents - by tutors, lackeys, governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by
clerks and others, by our women in the places of dissipation frequented by the GOYIM.
In the number of these last I count also the so-called "society ladies," voluntary
followers of the others in corruption and luxury.
23. Our countersign is - Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in political
affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to statesmen. Violence
must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rule for governments which
do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of agents of some new power. This
evil is the one and only means to attain the end, the good. Therefore we must not stop
at bribery, deceit and treachery when they should serve towards the attainment of our
end. In politics one must know how to seize the property of others without hesitation if
by it we secure submission and sovereignty.
24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to
replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences of death,
necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce blind submission. Just but
merciless severity is the greatest factor of strength in the State: not only for the sake
of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of victory, we must keep to the
programme of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is
precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not so much by
the means themselves as by the doctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring
all governments into subjection to our super-government. It is enough for them to
know that we are too merciless for all disobedience to cease.
WE SHALL END LIBERTY
25. Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses of the
people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many times repeated since
these days by stupid poll- parrots who, from all sides around, flew down upon these
baits and with them carried away the well-being of the world, true freedom of the
individual, formerly so well guarded against the pressure of the mob. The would-be
wise men of the GOYIM, the intellectuals, could not make anything out of the uttered
words in their abstractedness; did not see that in nature there is no equality, cannot
be freedom: that Nature herself has established inequality of minds, of characters, and
capacities, just as immutably as she has established subordination to her laws: never
stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from among it to
bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same blind men as the mob itself, that the
adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the non-adept, even if he were a
genius, understands nothing in the political - to all those things the GOYIM paid no
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