The Protocols, caught copying Joly

Like the God Vishnu, my press will have a hundred arms, and these arms will give their hands to all the different shades of opinion throughout the country.

These newspapers, like the Indian god Vishnu, will be possessed of hundreds of hands, each of which will be feeling the pulse of varying public opinion.

Now I understand the figure of the god Vishnu; you have a hundred arms like the Indian idol, and each of your fingers touches a spring.

Our Government will resemble the Hindu god Vishnu. Each of our hundred hands will hold one spring of the social machinery of State.

Thus, if a loan is at 5 per cent., the State, after 20 years, has paid out a sum equal to the borrowed capital. When 40 years have expired it has paid double, after 60 years triple: yet it remains debtor for the entire capital sum.

If a loan is at 5 per cent., then in 20 years the Government will have unnecessarily paid out a sum equal to that of the loan in order to cover the percentage. In 40 years it will have paid twice, and in 60 thrice that amount, but the loan will still remain as an unpaid debt.

What restrains those beasts of prey which they call men from attacking one another? Brute unrestrained Force in the first stages of social life, then the Law, that is still force regulated by forms. You have consulted all historical sources; everywhere might precedes right.

What restrained the wild beasts of prey which we call men? In the first stages of social life they submitted to brute and blind force, then to law, which in reality is the same force, only masked. From this I am led to deduct that by the law of nature right lies in might.

Among mankind the evil instinct is mightier than the good. Fear and Force have more empire over him than reason. Every man aims at domination; not one but would be an oppressor if he could.

It must be noted that people with corrupt instincts are more numerous than those of noble instinct. Therefore in governing the world the best results are obtained by means of violence and intimidation. Every man aims at power; everyone would like to become a dictator if he only could.

You must know that journalism is a sort of Freemasonry; those who live by it are bound to one another by the ties of professional discretion; like the augurs of old, they do not lightly divulge the secret of their oracles.

Already there exists in French journalism a system of Masonic understanding for giving countersigns. All organs of the Press are tied by mutual professional secrets in the manner of the ancient oracles.

You do not know the unbounded meanness of the peoples — grovelling before force, pitiless towards the weak, patient to the point of martyrdom under the violence of an audacious despotism — giving themselves masters whom they pardon for deeds for the least of which they would have beheaded twenty constitutional kings.

In their intense meanness the Christian peoples help our independence — pitiless towards the weak, patient to the degree of martyrdom in bearing with the violence of an audacious despotism. At the hands of their present dictators they endure abuses for the smallest of which they would have murdered twenty kings.