Popular Quotes Through Time

The night of the long knives.

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

If artists do see fields blue they are deranged and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

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.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.

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.

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

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.

My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.

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.

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.

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

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.

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.