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If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
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Adolf Hitler
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Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.
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Adolf Hitler
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.
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Adolf Hitler
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And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.
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Adolf Hitler
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Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
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Adolf Hitler
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Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decison never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!!
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Adolf Hitler
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The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
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Adolf Hitler
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When diplomacy ends, War begins.
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Adolf Hitler
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I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
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Adolf Hitler
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Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
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Adolf Hitler
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The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
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Adolf Hitler (Hitler's Letters and Notes)
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To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.
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Adolf Hitler
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Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
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Adolf Hitler
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The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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ููุฏ ูุงู ูู ูุณุนู ุฃู ุฃูุถู ุนูู ูู ูููุฏ ุงูุนุงูู
ููููู ุชุฑูุช ุจุนุถุง ู
ููู
ูุชุนุฑููุง ูู
ุงุฐุง ููุช ุฃุจูุฏูู
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Adolf Hitler (ููุงุญู)
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
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Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)
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If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
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Adolf Hitler
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The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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As in everything, nature is the best instructor.
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Adolf Hitler
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The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.
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Adolf Hitler
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The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.
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Adolf Hitler
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He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?
-- uncited source
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Adolf Hitler
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
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Adolf Hitler
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The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all.
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Adolf Hitler
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Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it. During the War the heaviest of penalties had to be paid for that ignorance.
-- Mein Kampf, Chapter 10
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
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Adolf Hitler
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Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler -
because George Bush, for one thing,
is not as smart as Adolf Hitler.
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David Clennon
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The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
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Adolf Hitler
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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
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Adolf Hitler
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No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and the advent of Adolf Hitler. The cardinal error of the Germans who opposed Nazism was their failure to unite against it.
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William L. Shirer (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany)
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As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
-- Speeches
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Adolf Hitler
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Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.
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J.G. Ballard (The Atrocity Exhibition)
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Life doesn't forgive weakness.
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Adolf Hitler (Hitler's Letters and Notes)
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Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
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Adolf Hitler
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No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.
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Adolf Hitler
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My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.
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Adolf Hitler
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Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.
-- unsourced, suspected false quotation
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Adolf Hitler
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In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily disenfranchised, we now present ourselves to the rest of the world as proud, grinning, jut-jawed, pitiless war-lovers with appalling powerful weaponry - who stand unopposed.
In case you haven't noticed, we are now as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazi's once were.
And with good reason.
In case you haven't noticed, our unelected leaders have dehumanized millions and millions of human beings simply because of their religion and race. We wound 'em and kill 'em and torture 'em and imprison 'em all we want.
Piece of cake.
In case you haven't noticed, we also dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class.
Send 'em anywhere. Make 'em do anything.
Piece of cake.
The O'Reilly Factor.
So I am a man without a country, except for the librarians and a Chicago paper called "In These Times."
Before we attacked Iraq, the majestic "New York Times" guaranteed there were weapons of destruction there.
Albert Einstein and Mark Twain gave up on the human race at the end of their lives, even though Twain hadn't even seen the First World War. War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?
Like my distinct betters Einstein and Twain, I now give up on people too. I am a veteran of the Second World War and I have to say this is the not the first time I surrendered to a pitiless war machine.
My last words? "Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse."
Napalm came from Harvard. Veritas!
Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler.
What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations and made it all their own?
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (A Man Without a Country)
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Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
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Adolf Hitler
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ููุฏ ุงูุชุดูุช ู
ุน ุงูุฃูุงู
ุฃูู ู
ุง ู
ู ูุนูู ู
ุบุงูุฑู ููุฃุฎูุงู, ูู
ุง ู
ู ุฌุฑูู
ุฉ ุจุญู ุงูู
ุฌุชู
ุน ุฅูุง ููููููุฏ ูุฏุงู ูููุง
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Adolf Hitler (ููุงุญู)
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MAN: Do you have black and white film posters?
BOOKSELLER: Yes, we do. Theyโre over here.
MAN: Do you have any posters of Adolf Hitler?
BOOKSELLER: Pardon?
MAN: Adolf Hitler.
BOOKSELLER: Well, he wasnโt a film star, was he.
MAN: Yes, he was. He was American. Jewish, I think...
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Jen Campbell (Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops)
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Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the race and native land or the State, which offers protection to the race, has in all ages been the urge which has forced men to face the weapons of their enemies.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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ุฅู ูู
ุชูู ุชุนูู
ุฃูู ุชุฐูุจ ููู ุงูุทุฑู ุชูู ุจุงูุบุฑุถ .
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Adolf Hitler (ููุงุญู)
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When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.
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Adolf Hitler
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I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.
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Adolf Hitler
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I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.
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Adolf Hitler (Hitler's Letters and Notes)
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Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of history can never be to learn historical dates and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this battle or that was fought, when a general was born, or even when a monarch (usually a very insignificant one) came into the crown of his forefathers. No, by the living God, this is very unimportant. To 'learn' history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
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Adolf Hitler (Hitler's Secret Conversations, 1941-1944)
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The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Mother Night)
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I know that fewer people are won over by the written word than by the spoken word and that every great movement on this earth owes its growth to great speakers and not to great writers.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.
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Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.
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Ptolemy IIโs far-famed parade, held in Alexandria perhaps in 278, included eighty thousand soldiers; even Adolf Hitlerโs fiftieth birthday in 1939 was celebrated by only fifty thousand
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Robin Waterfield (Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece)
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The isolationists argued that if the US had stayed out of the Great War - or, as it later became known, World War I - there never would have been a World War II. By 1917 the warring protagonists - Britain, France, Germany, Austria, and others - had suffered millions of casualties and were exhausted. The German populace was starving. The isolationists believed that a resolution was inevitable without the US involvement that resulted in 116,000 dead fathers, brothers and sons. ย They argued that if the United States had stayed out of the Great War, no one would ever have heard of Adolf Hitler.
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Dale A. Jenkins (Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway)
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Many years later, after Niemรถller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous words:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionist, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -
because I was not a Jew.
And then they came for me -
and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy)
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But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.
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Adolf Hitler
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[Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:]
Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwinโs thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along with every other form of unbelief that all the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime.
Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms โ the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome โ if itโs an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that heโs doing Godโs work and executing Godโs will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, โI swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?โ How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? Itโs exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system?
Again, this is not a difference of emphasis between us. To suggest that thereโs something fascistic about me and about my beliefs is something I won't hear said and you shouldn't believe.
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Christopher Hitchens
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I have in this War a burning private grudgeโwhich would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.
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J.R.R. Tolkien (The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien)
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Yeah, because when youโre attracted to someone, you actually enjoy kissing them and afterward, you donโt act like you kissed Adolf Hitler.
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J. Lynn (Tempting the Best Man (Gamble Brothers, #1))
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There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and remake German society.
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Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken earlier by France, Rome and Macedonia. The curtain was rung down on that phase of history, at least, by the sudden invention of the hydrogen bomb, of the ballistic missile and of rockets that can be aimed to hit the moon.
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William L. Shirer (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany)
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Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.
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Adolf Hitler
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The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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I respected my father, but I loved my mother
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Adolf Hitler
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The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.
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The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
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Adolf Hitler
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Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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don't let what other people think, stop you from doing the things you love
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Adolf Hitler
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There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf - My Struggle: Unabridged edition of Hitlers original book - Four and a Half Years of Struggle against Lies, Stupidity, and Cowardice)
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The amount of money that is in your bank at the time of your death is the extra work you did which wasn't necessary
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Adolf Hitler
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Conscience is a Jewish invention.
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Adolf Hitler
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God's and beasts, that is what our world is made of.
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Adolf Hitler
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While the Zionists try to make the rest of the World believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn't even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organisation for their international world swindler, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks.
It is a sign of their rising confidence and sense of security that at a time when one section is still playing the German, French-man, or Englishman, the other with open effrontery comes out as the Jewish race.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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I have never really understood exactly what a โliberalโ is, since I have heard โliberalsโ express every conceivable opinion on every conceivable subject. As far as I can tell, you have the extreme right, who are fascist racist capitalist dogs like Ronald Reagan, who come right out and let you know where theyโre coming from. And on the opposite end, you have the left, who are supposed to be committed to justice, equality, and human rights. And somewhere between those two points is the liberal.
As far as Iโm concerned, โliberalโ is the most meaningless word in the dictionary. History has shown me that as long as some white middle-class people can live high on the hog, take vacations to Europe, send their children to private schools, and reap the benefits of their white skin privilege, then they are โliberalโ. But when times get hard and money gets tight, they pull off that liberal mask and you think youโre talking to Adolf Hitler. They feel sorry for the so-called underprivileged just as long as they can maintain their own privileges.
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Assata Shakur
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Sparta must be regarded as the first vรถlkisch state. The exposure of the sick, weak, deformed children, in short, their destruction, was more decent and in truth a thousand times more human than the wretched insanity of our day which preserves the most pathological subject.
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Adolf Hitler
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All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
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Adolf Hitler
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There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it
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Spike Milligan (Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (War Memoirs, #1))
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Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing
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Adolf Hitler
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The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition which it may tend to leave behind.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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ุฃููุณ ู
ู ุงูุนุงุฑ ุฃู ุชุชุฑู ู
ูุฏุฑุงุช ุฃู
ูุฉ ุชุญุช ุฑุญู
ุฉ ู
ูุงุทููู ูุชุตุฑููู ุจูุฐู ุงูู
ูุฏุฑุงุช ุจุฎููุฉ ู ู
ุฌูู ูู
ุง ูู ูุงููุง ููุนุจูู ุงููุฑู ..
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Whenever human activity is directed exclusively to the service of the instinct for self-preservation it is called theft or usury, robbery or burglary etc
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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It is the press, above all, which wages a positively fanatical and slanderous struggle, tearing down everything which can be regarded as a support of national independence, cultural elevation, and the economic independence of the nation.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . .๏ปฟ We need believing people.
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Adolf Hitler
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The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.
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Adolf Hitler
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Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like
outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...
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Adolf Hitler
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It is more difficult to undermine faith than knowledge, love succumbs to change less than to respect, hatred is more durable than aversion, and at all times the driving force of the most important changes in this world has been found less in a scientific knowledge animating the masses, but rather in a fanaticism dominating them and in a hysteria which drove them forward.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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I am firmly convinced to-day that, generally speaking, it is in youth that men lay the essential groundwork of their creative thought, wherever that creative thought exists. I make a distinction between the wisdom of age- which can only arise from the greater profundity and foresight that are based on the experiences of a long life- and the creative genius of youth, which blossoms out in thoughts and ideas with inexhaustible fertility, without being able to put these into practice immediately, because of their very superabundance. These furnish the building materials and plans for the future; and it is from them that age takes the stones and builds the edifice, unless the so-called wisdom of the years may have smothered the creative genius of youth.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: "In dreams begin responsibility. Turn this on its head and you could say that where there's no power to imagine, no responsibility can arise." [...] Just like Adolf Eichmann caught up in the twisted dreams of a man named Hitler. - Oshima
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Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
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[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all โprogressiveโ thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings donโt only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty-parades ... Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people โI offer you a good time,โ Hitler has said to them โI offer you struggle, danger and death,โ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet
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George Orwell
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Conozco a personas que โleenโ muchรญsimo, libro tras libro y lรญnea a lรญnea, y a las que, sin embargo, no calificarรญa de โbuenos lectoresโ. Es cierto que estas personas poseen una gran cantidad de โconocimientosโ, pero su cerebro no sabe organizar y registrar el material adquirido. Les falta el arte de separar, en un libro, lo que es de valor para ellos y lo que es inรบtil, de conservar para siempre en la memoria lo que interesa de verdad y desechar lo que no les reporta ventaja alguna.
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Adolf Hitler
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Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is less defensive than offensive. It therefore has the advantage even in determining the goal, since this goal represents the victory of its own idea, while, conversely,it is hard to determine when the negative aim of the destruction of a hostile doctrine may be regarded as achieved and assured. For this reason alone, the philosophy's offensive will be more systematic and also more powerful than the defensive against a philosophy, since here, too, as always, the attack and not the defence makes the decision. The fight against a spiritual power with methods of violence remains defensive, however, until the sword becomes the support,the herald and disseminator, of a new spiritual doctrine.
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Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
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When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi hakenkreuz, but for a boy growing up after 1945 the shock of encountering the emblem at all was a memorable one. I later learned that in the mid-1930s Kipling had caused this 'signature' to be removed from all his future editions. Having initially sympathized with some of the early European fascist movements, he wanted to express his repudiation of Hitlerism (or 'the Hun,' as he would perhaps have preferred to say), and wanted no part in tainting the ancient Indian rune by association. In its origin it is a Hindu and Jainas symbol for light, and well worth rescuing.
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Christopher Hitchens (Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays)
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I know people who read interminably, book after book, from page to page, and yet I
should not call them 'well-read people'. Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but
their brain seems incapable of assorting and classifying the material which they have
gathered from books. They have not the faculty of distinguishing between what is
useful and useless in a book; so that they may retain the former in their minds and if
possible skip over the latter while reading it, if that be not possible, then--when once
read--throw it overboard as useless ballast. Reading is not an end in itself, but a means
to an end. Its chief purpose is to help towards filling in the framework which is made
up of the talents and capabilities that each individual possesses. Thus each one procures
for himself the implements and materials necessary for the fulfilment of his calling in
life, no matter whether this be the elementary task of earning one's daily bread or a
calling that responds to higher human aspirations. Such is the first purpose of reading.
And the second purpose is to give a general knowledge of the world in which we live.
In both cases, however, the material which one has acquired through reading must not
be stored up in the memory on a plan that corresponds to the successive chapters of the
book; but each little piece of knowledge thus gained must be treated as if it were a little
stone to be inserted into a mosaic, so that it finds its proper place among all the other
pieces and particles that help to form a general world-picture in the brain of the reader.
Otherwise only a confused jumble of chaotic notions will result from all this reading.
That jumble is not merely useless, but it also tends to make the unfortunate possessor of
it conceited. For he seriously considers himself a well-educated person and thinks that
he understands something of life. He believes that he has acquired knowledge, whereas
the truth is that every increase in such 'knowledge' draws him more and more away
from real life, until he finally ends up in some sanatorium or takes to politics and
becomes a parliamentary deputy.
Such a person never succeeds in turning his knowledge to practical account when the
opportune moment arrives; for his mental equipment is not ordered with a view to
meeting the demands of everyday life. His knowledge is stored in his brain as a literal
transcript of the books he has read and the order of succession in which he has read
them. And if Fate should one day call upon him to use some of his book-knowledge for
certain practical ends in life that very call will have to name the book and give the
number of the page; for the poor noodle himself would never be able to find the spot
where he gathered the information now called for. But if the page is not mentioned at
the critical moment the widely-read intellectual will find himself in a state of hopeless
embarrassment. In a high state of agitation he searches for analogous cases and it is
almost a dead certainty that he will finally deliver the wrong prescription.
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Adolf Hitler