‘I use emotion for the many
and reserve reason for the few’.
—Hitler
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Adolf quote
‘Hate is more lasting than dislike’.
—Hitler
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Adolf quote
‘He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future’.
—Hitler
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Adolf quote
‘The day of individual happiness has passed.’
—Hitler
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Adolf quote
‘Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction’.
—Hitler
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‘Words build bridges into unexplored regions’.
—Hitler
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‘Strength lies not in defence but in attack’.
—Hitler
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Hitler on democracy
‘This is the expression of an authoritarian state –not of a weak, babbling democracy [like the American one]–, of an authoritarian state where everyone is proud to obey, because he knows: I will likewise be obeyed when I must take command’.
—Speech at Nuremberg, September 14, 1935 (see Savitri’s Memoirs pages 172-177 to fully grasp this point).
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Stobaeus
‘The world corresponds by nature to who is superior’.
—Stobaeus (IV, 6, 19)
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Curtius
We should all do this: Turn outward what we carry deep inside and pour it out on our brothers. All withholding is bad.
These words, from Ernst Robert Curtius’ introduction to Miguel de Unamuno’s The Tragic Sense of Life, motivated me this morning to get out of bed on a cold, cloudy and depressing day. Curtius continues:
Men are crustaceans. Each lives in his shell, in his solitude. The task of the writer must be to break through the shell of his fellows, to disturb their slumber, to awaken them.