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Adolf Hitler

1889

the most immoral and cruel conqueror in human history

German dictator for 12 years and instigator of both the Holocaust and World War II (the deadliest conflict in all of human history); Hitler rose to power by promoting anti-semitism, German pan-nationalism, and anti-communism. His impassioned and charismatic speeches served Nazi propaganda well hypnotizing followers into unthinking true believers. His racially motivated policies led to the killing of c. 19.3 million civilians and prisoners of war, the genocide of 6 million Jews and millions of others considered "socially undesirable." His regime is almost universally associated with the word evil, he as the most immoral and cruel conqueror in human history.

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Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf (1935)

Quotes by Adolf Hitler (18 quotes)

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly—it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”

from Mein Kampf

Themes: Deception

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“Better an end with horror than a horror without end.”

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“I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.”

Themes: Power

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“Nature is cruel, therefore we, too, may be cruel…. I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin!”

Themes: Projection

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“my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance. Everything about the behavior 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—a State where 80 per cent of the revenue is drained away for the public purse—a country where everything is built on the dollar?”

Themes: Judaism

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“We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island.”

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“We shall banish fear... Rooted in a fuller life for every German from childhood to old age, National Socialism means a new day of abundance at home and a Better World Order abroad.”

Themes: Fear

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“We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany.”

Themes: Fanaticism

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“I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is 'Destroy him by all and any means.' I am the one who will wage the war!”

Themes: War Evil

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“National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.”

Themes: Slavery Socialism

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“Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.”

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“Hate is more lasting than dislike”

from Mein Kampf (1935)

Themes: Hate

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“Democracy—the deceitful theory that all men are created equal.”

from Mein Kampf (1935)

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“Either the world will be governed according to the ideas of modern democracy and the weight of any decision will result in favor of the numerically stronger races, or the world will be dominated in accordance with the laws of the natural order of force, and then it is the peoples of brutal will who will conquer.”

from Mein Kampf (1935)

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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 around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”

from Mein Kampf (1935)

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“Something always remains and sticks from the most impudent lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned with the art of lying in this world know only too well, and hence they stop at nothing to achieve this end.”

from Mein Kampf (1935)

Themes: Lies

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“The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.”

Themes: War

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“Stalin, too, must command our unconditional respect. In his own way he is a hell of a fellow! He knows his models, Genghiz Khan and the others, very well.”

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Quotes about Adolf Hitler (16 quotes)

“Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.”

Ezra Pound 1885 – 1972 CE
from Interview (1945)​​

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“Hitler succeeded in degrading the moral standards of our Western world, and that in the world of today there is more violence and brutal force than would have been tolerated even in the decade after the first World war. And we must face the possibility that our civilization may ultimately be destroyed by those new weapons which Hitlerism wished upon us... for no doubt, the spirit of Hitlerism won its greatest victory over us when, after its defeat, we used the weapons which the threat of Nazism had induced us to develop.”

Karl Popper 1902 – 1994 CE
Major Philosopher of Science
from Utopia and Violence (1947)​

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“You protest, and with justice, each time Hitler jails an opponent; but you forget that Stalin and company have jailed and murdered a thousand times as many. It seems to me, and indeed the evidence is plain, that compared to the Moscow brigands and assassins, Hitler is hardly more than a common Ku Kluxer and Mussolini almost a philanthropist.”

Henry Louis Mencken 1880 – 1956 CE
alt.right founding father
from American Mercury (1936)

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“I am aware that your view of life regards such spoliations as virtuous acts. But we have been taught from childhood to regard them as acts degrading humanity... The rulers may have our land and bodies but not our souls... You are leaving no legacy to your people of which they would feel proud.”

Mahatma Gandhi 1869 – 1948 CE
from Letter to Hitler (1940)​

Themes: Evil

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“Had Japan been a tenth as wise as Abraham Lincoln, had Hitler been a hundredth part as sensible, we today, the United States and England, would not have a chance in this war. .. But they have lost because they attacked lands already free, and because they have enslaved peoples accustomed to freedom. By this one thing alone, if by no other, they are doomed. They have misread the hearts and minds of men.”

Pearl Buck 1892 – 1973 CE
from What America Means to Me (1943)

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“Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.”

Bertrand Russell 1872 – 1970 CE
“20th century Voltaire”
from History of Western Philosophy

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“Stalin, too, must command our unconditional respect. In his own way he is a hell of a fellow! He knows his models, Genghiz Khan and the others, very well.”

Adolf Hitler 1
the most immoral and cruel conqueror in human history

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“Hitler could not have succeeded against his many rivals if it had not been for the attraction of his own personality, which one can feel even in the clumsy writing of Mein Kampf, and which is no doubt overwhelming when one hears his speeches... I have reflected that I would certainly kill him if I could get within reach of him, but that I could feel no personal animosity... He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds...”

George Orwell 1903 – 1950 CE
English, poet, humanist, apostle of doubt, and powerful political influence
from Review of Mein Kampf (1940)

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“even Hitler didn't manage to make people forget all their alternative stories... no sooner had Hitler shot a bullet through his brain than people in Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich adopted new identities and found new meaning in their lives.”

Yuval Harari יובל נח הררי‎ 1976 CE –
Israeli historian, professor, and philosopher

from 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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“When the Germans were defeated I felt great joy and relief, but at the same time I thought of the German defeat as being somehow tragic, because here we have perhaps the most educated people in Europe, who have a fine literature, a fine tradition of philosophy and poetry. Yet these people were bamboozled by a madman named Adolf Hitler, and I think there is tragedy there.”

Jorge Luis Borges 1899 – 1986 CE via Harold Bloom
Literary Explorer of Labyrinthian Dreams, Mirrors, and Mythologies

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“since the time of Mohammed nothing like it has been seen in this world... This markedly mystic characteristic of Hitler's is what makes him do things which seem to us illogical, inexplicable, and unreasonable. … So you see, Hitler is a medicine man, a spiritual vessel, a demi-deity or, even better, a myth.”

Carl Jung 1875 – 1961 CE
Insightful shamanistic scientist
from Interview (1939)​

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“While he was obviously incapable of feeling any empathy whatsoever toward Jews and many other groups of people, nevertheless Hitler is known to have displayed great tenderness and empathy toward certain dogs. As such, it does not appear he was completely incapable of empathy but that its scope was terribly limited.”

Karmapa XVII ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཕྲིན་ལས་རྡོ་རྗ 1985 CE – via Finnegan
(Orgyen Thrinlay Dorje)
from Interconnected (2017)

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“Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia... this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation.”

Winston Churchill 1874 – 1965 CE
from Radio broadcast (1941)​

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“We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did was 'illegal.' It was 'illegal' to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers.”

Martin Luther King Jr. 1929 – 1968 CE
Leading world influence for equality, peace, non-violence, and poverty alleviation
from Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Themes: Judaism

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“In the 1700s, politics was all about ideas. But Jefferson came up with all the good ideas. In the 1800s, it was all about character. but no one will ever have as much character as Lincoln and Lee. For much of the 1900s it was about charisma. But we no longer trust charisma because Hitler used it to kill Jews and JFK used it to get laid and send us to Vietnam.”

Neal Stephenson 1959 CE –
(Stephen Bury)
Speculative futurist and cultural social commentator

from Interface (1994)

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“We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god.”

Carl Jung 1875 – 1961 CE
Insightful shamanistic scientist
from The Symbolic Life (1939)

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