"To obtain control over public opinion, it is first necessary to confuse it by the
expression from various sides of so many conflicting opinions that the Gentiles will
lose themselves in the labyrinth and come to understand that it is best to have no
opinion on political questions, which it is not given to society at large to
understand but only to the ruler who directs society. This is the first secret.
"The second secret consists in so increasing and intensifying the shortcomings of
the people in their habits, passions and mode of living that no one will be able to
collect himself in the chaos, and, consequently, people will lose all their mutual
understanding. This measure will serve us also in breeding disagreement in all
parties, in disintegrating all those collective forces which are still unwilling to
submit to us and in discouraging all personal initiative which can in any way
interfere with our undertaking."