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I Wish And Will Continue To Wish, That The German People Should Learn That By Reason Of Practical Examples Afforded By Their Ability And Work, They Are Not A Second-rate Or Inferior People In Comparison With Others. On The Contrary They Are Their Equals According To All True Standards Of Values And Therefore Entitled To Equal Rights In All Respects.
-Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler
I Wish And Will Continue To Wish, That The German People Should Learn That By Reason Of Practical Examples Afforded By Their Ability And Work, They Are Not A Second-rate Or Inferior People In Comparison With Others. On The Contrary They Are Their Equals According To All True Standards Of Values And Therefore Entitled To Equal Rights In All Respects.
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The Result Of The Revolution In Germany Has Been To Establish A Democracy In The Best Sense Of The Word. We Are Steering Towards An Order Of Things Guaranteeing A Process Of A Natural And Reasonable Selection In The Domain Of Political Leadership, Thanks To Which That Leadership Will Be Entrusted To The Most Competent, Irrespective Of Their Descent, Name Or Fortune. The Memorable Words Of The Great Corsican That Every Soldier Carries A Field Marshal's Baton In His Knapsack, Will Find Its Political Complement In Germany.
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When An Opponent Declares, "i Will Not Come Over To Your Side," I Calmly Say, "your Child Belongs To Us Already...what Are You? You Will Pass On. Your Descendants, However, Now Stand In The New Camp. In A Short Time They Will Know Nothing Else But This New Community."
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To Attain Our Aim We Should Stop At Nothing Even If We Must Join Forces With The Devil.
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A Victory At Kursk Would Shine Like A Beacon To The World!
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Columbus's Eggs Lie Around By The Hundreds Of Thousands, But Columbuses Are Met With Less Frequency.
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Heaven Will Smile On Us Again.
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...we Understand Only The Individual's Capacity To Make Sacrifices For The Community, For His Fellow Men.
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We Stand For The Maintenance Of Private Property... We Shall Protect Free Enterprise As The Most Expedient, Or Rather The Sole Possible Economic Order.
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If Nature Does Not Wish That Weaker Individuals Should Mate With The Stronger, She Wishes Even Less That A Superior Race Should Intermingle With An Inferior One; Because In Such A Case All Her Efforts, Throughout Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years, To Establish An Evolutionary Higher Stage Of Being, May Thus Be Rendered Futile.
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Only In The Roman Empire And In Spain Under Arab Domination Has Culture Been A Potent Factor. Under The Arab, The Standard Attained Was Wholly Admirable; To Spain Flocked The Greatest Scientists, Thinkers, Astronomers, And Mathematicians Of The World, And Side By Side There Flourished A Spirit Of Sweet Human Tolerance And A Sense Of Purist Chivalry. Then With The Advent Of Christianity, Came The Barbarians.
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Comment
Breaths
National Socialism Will Use Its Own Revolution For Establishing Of A New World Order.
Nwo
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Order
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Mean
Names
Long
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Eye
Men
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Whoever Lights The Torch Of War In Europe Can Wish For Nothing But Chaos. We, However, Live In The Firm Conviction Our Times Will See Not The Decline But The Renaissance Of The West. It Is Our Proud Hope And Our Unshakable Belief Germany Can Make An Imperishable Contribution To This Great Work.
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Europe
Light
All Advertising, Whether It Lies In The Field Of Business Or Of Politics, Will Carry Success By Continuity And Regular Uniformity Of Application.
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People
Use
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Europe
World
I Am Personally Convinced Of The Great Power And Deep Significance Of Christianity, And I Won't Allow Any Other Religion To Be Promoted.
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Atheism
Christianity
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But If Out Of Smugness, Or Even Cowardice, This Battle Is Not Fought To Its End, Then Take A Look At The Peoples Five Hundred Years From Now. I Think You Will Find But Few Images Of God, Unless You Want To Profane The Almighty.
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Thinking
Years
A Highly Intelligent Man Should Take A Primitive Woman. Imagine If On Top Of Everything Else, I Had A Woman Who Interfered With My Work.
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Imagine
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Taste
Nudity
I Don't Talk For The Sake Of Talking. I Do Become Intoxicated With Sound. When I Open My Mouth, It's To Say Something.
Talking
Sound
Mouths
I Myself And My Wife - In Order To Escape The Disgrace Of Deposition Or Capitulation - Choose Death. It Is Our Wish To Be Burnt Immediately On The Spot Where I Have Carried Out The Greatest Part Of My Daily Work In The Course Of A Twelve Years' Service To My People.
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Years
There Is, Then, No Danger In The Circumstances That Anti-semitism Will Disappear, For It Is The Jews Themselves Who Add Fuel To Its Flames And See That It Is Kept Well Stoked. Before The Opposition To It Can Disappear, The Malady Itself Must Disappear. And From That Point Of View, You Can Rely On The Jews: As Long As They Survive, Anti-semitism Will Never Fade. (13th February 1945)
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Long
May Therefore God Give Us The Strength To Continue To Do Our Duty And With This Prayer We Bow In Homage Before Our Dead Heroes, Before Those Whom They Have Left Behind In Bereavement, And Before All The Other Victims Of This War.
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War
Hero
Genius Is A Will-o'-the-wisp If It Lacks A Solid Foundation Of Perseverence And Fanatical Tenacity. This Is The Most Important Thing In All Of Human Life.
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Foundation
Genius
A Car For The People, An Affordable Volkswagen, Would Bring Great Joy To The Masses And The Problems Of Building Such A Car Must Be Faced With Courage.
People
Car
Joy
I Will Not Wage War Against Women And Children! I Have Instructed My Air Force To Limit Their Attacks To Military Objectives. However, If The Enemy Should Conclude From This That He Might Get Away With Waging War In A Different Manner He Will Receive An Answer That He'll Be Knocked Out Of His Wits!
Children
Military
War
The Man And The Movement Seemed 'reactionary' In My Eyes. My Common Sense Of Justice, However, Forced Me To Change This Judgment In Proportion As I Had Occasion To Become Acquainted With The Man And His Work; And Slowly My Fair Judgment Turned To Unconcealed Admiration. Today, More Than Ever, I Regard This Man As The Greatest German Mayor Of All Times.
Eye
Men
Common Sense
The Most Foolish Mistake We Could Possibly Make Would Be To Allow The Subjugated Races To Possess Arms.
Mistake
Gun
People
Think Thousand Times Before Taking A Decision But - After Taking Decison Never Turn Back Even If You Get Thousand Difficulties!!
Inspirational
Thinking
Decision
I Never Lost My Belief, In The Midst Of Setbacks Which Were Not Spared Me During My Period Of Struggle. Providence Has Had The Last Word And Brought Me Success.
Struggle
Lasts
Belief
I Use Emotion For The Many And Reserve Reason For The Few.
Mein Kampf
Use
Emotion
When Human Hearts Break And Human Hearts Despair, Then From The Twilight Of The Past The Great Conquerors Of Distress And Care, Of Disgrace And Misery, Of Spiritual Slavery And Physical Compulsion, Look Down On Them And Hold Out Their Eternal Hands To The Despairing Mortals.
Spiritual
Twilight
Heart
No More Than A Famous Master Can Be Replaced And Another Take Over The Completion Of The Half-finished Painting He Has Left Behind Can The Great Poet And Thinker, The Great Statesman And The Great Soldier, Be Replaced. For Their Activity Lies Always In The Province Of Art. It Is Not Mechanically Trained But Inborn By God's Grace.
Art
Lying
Grace
The State Is A Means To An End. Its End Lies In The Preservation And Advancement Of A Community Of Physically And Psychically Homogenous Creatures.
Lying
Mean
Community
For The Folk-community Does Not Exist On The Fictitious Value Of Money But On The Results Of Productive Labour, Which Is What Gives Money Its Value.
Money
Giving
Community
In The Course Of History No People Have Ever Been Given Freedom Like A Present, And If Freedom Did Not Cost Anything Than No People Would Ever Keep It! Freedom Has A High Price, And Men Must Ever Struggle To Preserve It.
Struggle
Men
People
I Am Sure That The Japanese, The Chinese And The Peoples Of Islam Will Always Be Closer To Us Than, For Example, France, In Spite Of The Fact That We Are Related By Blood (...)
Blood
Chinese
Islam
For There Is Hardly A State Or Nation In Existence Which Has Not Once Had The Misfortune, Even If It Was In The Right A Thousand Times Over, To Be Defeated By A Stronger Opponent Or A Stronger Coalition.
Stronger
Opponents
Defeated
I Drank My Bottle Of Milk And Ate My Morsel Of Bread Somewhere On The Outskirts, While I Circumspectly Studied My Environment Or Else Fell To Meditating On My Own Harsh Lot.
Bottles
Bread
Milk
What Is Necessary Is To Teach Each Class And Profession The Importance Of The Others. All Together Form One Mighty Body; Labourer, Peasant, And Professional Man.
Men
Class
Together
Life Is Like A Game, There Could Be Many Players. If You Don't Play With Them, They'll Play With You.
Player
Games
Life Is Like
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.
War
Islands
People
Once Again The Songs Of The Fatherland Roared To The Heavens Along The Endless Marching Columns, And For The Last Time The Lord's Grace Smiled On His Ungrateful Children.
Song
Religious
Children
Christianity Is A Rebellion Against Natural Law, A Protest Against Nature. Taken To Its Logical Extreme, Christianity Would Mean The Systematic Cultivation Of The Human Failure.
Taken
Mean
Law
Everything On This Earth Can Be Made Into Something Better. Every Defeat May Be Made The Foundation Of A Future Victory. Every Lost War May Be The Cause Of A Later Resurgence. Every Visitation Of Distress Can Give A New Impetus To Human Energy. And Out Of Every Oppression Those Forces Can Develop Which Bring About A New Rebirth.
War
Giving
Victory
More People Died As A Result Of The Tiny Abortive Easter Uprising Against British Rule In Ireland (1916) Than Died As A Result Of Political Violence In Germany During The Entire National Socialist Revolution.
Easter
Uprising
People
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.
Political
Doubt
Glimpse
Our Thoughts And Actions Must In No Way Be Determined By The Approval Or Disapproval Of Our Time, But By The Binding Obligation To A Truth Which We Have Recognized.
Way
Approval
Determined
All Those Who Are Not Racially Pure Are Mere Chaff.
Mere
Pure
The World Is Not For Cowardly Peoples.
World
Cowardly
The Earth Continues To Go Round, Whether It's The Man Who Kills The Tiger Or The Tiger Who Eats The Man. The Stronger Asserts His Will, It's The Law Of Nature. The World Doesn't Change; Its Laws Are Eternal.
Men
Law
Stronger
Man Has Discovered In Nature The Wonderful Notion Of That All-mighty Being Whose Law He Worships. Fundamentally In Everyone There Is The Feeling For This All-mighty, Which We Call God (that Is To Say, The Dominion Of Natural Laws Throughout The Whole Universe).
Men
Law
Feelings
Believe Me, National Socialism Would Not Be Worth Anything If It Were To Be Confined To Germany And Did Not Secure The Rule Of The Superior Race Over The Whole World For At Least One Or Two Thousand Years.
Believe
Years
Two
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.
Military
Passion
Fate
The Task Of Propaganda Lies Not In A Scientific Training Of The Individual, But Rather In Directing The Masses Toward Certain Facts, Events, Necessities, Etc., The Purpose Being To Move Their Importance Into The Masses' Field Of Vision.
Lying
Moving
Training
I Say That They Can Be Solved; There Is No Problem That Cannot Be, But Faith Is Necessary. Think Of The Faith I Had To Have Eighteen Years Ago, A Single Man On A Lonely Path. Yet I Have Come To Leadership Of The German People... Life Is Hard For Many, But It Is Hardest If You Are Unhappy And Have No Faith. Have Faith. Nothing Can Make Me Change My Own Belief.
Lonely
Men
Thinking
Himmler Wants To Send An Expedition To Tibet To Look For Ancient Manuscripts On The Aryans. The Man Is Like A Little Schoolgirl. What Culture Is There In An Old Jug, I Ask You?
Men
Jugs
Culture
The Parliamentary Principle Of Vesting Legislative Power In The Decision Of The Majority Rejects The Authority Of The Individual And Puts A Numerical Quota Of Anonymous Heads In Its Place. In Doing So It Contradicts The Aristocratic Principle, Which Is A Fundamental Law Of Nature.
Law
Decision
Majority
I Had Excellent Opportunity To Intoxicate Myself With The Solemn Splendor Of The Brilliant Church Festivals. As Was Only Natural, The Abbot Seemed To Me, As The Village Priest Had Once Seemed To My Father, The Highest And Most Desirable Ideal.
Religious
Father
Opportunity
Success Is The Sole Earthly Judge Of Right And Wrong.
Success
Congratulations
Judging
I Desire A Violent, Domineering, Fearless, And Ferocious Upcoming Generation. It Must Be Able To Bear Pain. It Must Show No Signs Whatsoever Of Weakness Or Tenderness. The Free And Magnificent Predator Must Once Again Glint From Their Eyes.
Pain
Eye
Fearless
Life Does Not Forgive Weakness.
Forgiving
Weakness
Doe
There Must Be No Majority Decisions, But Only Responsible Persons, And The Word 'council' Must Be Restored To Its Original Meaning. Surely Every Man Will Have Advisers By His Side, But The Decision Will Be Made By One Man.
Military
Men
Decision
All Propaganda Has To Be Popular And Has To Accommodate Itself To The Comprehension Of The Least Intelligent Of Those Whom It Seeks To Reach.
Lying
Intelligent
Rise To Power
Cruelty Impresses, People Want To Be Afraid Of Something. They Want Someone To Whom They Can Submit With A Shudder, The Masses Need That. They Need Something To Dreed.
People
Needs
Want
This State Of Mind, Which Subordinates The Interests Of The Ego To The Conservation Of The Community, Is Really The First Premise For Every Truly Human Culture... The Basic Attitude From Which Such Activity Arises, We Call-to Distinguish It From Egoism And Selfishness-idealism. By This We Understand Only The Individual's Capacity To Make Sacrifices For The Community, For His Fellow Men.
Attitude
Sacrifice
Men
In Late Marriage Alone Lies The Compulsion To Retain An Institution Which, Twist And Turn As You Like, Is And Remains A Disgrace To Humanity, An Institution Which Is Damned Ill-suited To A Being Who With His Usual Modesty Likes To Regard Himself As The 'image' Of God.
Religious
Lying
Humanity
Blood Mixture And The Result Drop In The Racial Level Is The Sole Cause Of The Dying Out Of Old Cultures; For Men Do Not Perish As A Result Of Lost Wars, But By The Loss Of That Force Of Resistance Which Is Continued Only In Pure Blood. All Who Are Not Of Good Race In This World Are Chaff.
War
Loss
Men
Democracy, The Deceitful Theory That The Jew Would Insinuate - Namely, That Theory That All Men Are Created Equal.
Men
Democracy
Deceitful
Blood Sin And Desecration Of The Race Are The Original Sin In This World And The End Of A Humanity Which Surrenders To It.
Race
Blood
Humanity
Germany Is Prepared To Agree To Any Solemn Pact Of Non-aggression, Because She Does Not Think Of Attacking But Only Acquiring Security.
Military
Thinking
Doe
[propaganda] Does Not Have Multiple Shadings; It Has A Positive And A Negative; Love Or Hate, Right Or Wrong, Truth Or Lie, Never Half This Way And Half That Way.
Hate
Lying
Media
Political Parties Has Nothing To Do With Religious Problems, As Long As These Are Not Alien To The Nation, Undermining The Morals And Ethics Of The Race; Just As Religion Cannot Be Amalgamated With The Scheming Of Political Parties.
Religious
Party
Race
We Need Free Men Who Feel And Know That God Is In Themselves
Men
Needs
Feels
For It Was By The Will Of God That Men Were Made Of A Certain Bodily Shape, Were Given Their Natures And Their Faculties. Whoever Destroys His Work Wages War Against God's Creation And God's Will.
War
Men
Atheism
With The Defeat Of The Reich And Pending The Emergence Of The Asiatic, The African And, Perhaps, The South American Nationalisms, There Will Remain In The World Only Two Great Powers Capable Of Confronting Each Other-the United States And Soviet Russia. The Laws Of Both History And Geography Will Compel These Two Powers To A Trial Of Strength, Either Military Or In The Fields Of Economics And Ideology. (2nd April 1945)
Military
Russia
Law
The German People Have No Idea Of The Extent To Which They Have To Be Gulled In Order To Be Led.
Order
Ideas
People
I Will Never Allow Anyone To Divide This People Once More Into Religious Camps, Each Fighting The Other
Religious
Military
Fighting
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.
Passion
People
Torches
Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell Lie; How Much You Want After Victory Nobody Asks Why?
Lying
Victory
Want
The Folkish-minded Man, In Particular, Has The Sacred Duty, Each In His Own Denomination, Of Making People Stop Just Talking Superficially Of God's Will, And Actually Fulfill God's Will, And Not Let God's Word Be Desecrated. For God's Will Gave Men Their Form, Their Essence And Their Abilities. Anyone Who Destroys His Work Is Declaring War On The Lord's Creation, The Divine Will.
Letting Go
Religious
War
The Seed Has Been Sown That Will Grow One Day . . . To The Glorious Rebirth Of The National Socialist Movement Of A Truly United Nation.
One Day
Movement
Rebirth
I Looked At [goering Eating Sausage] And I Knew That What They Say Was True: That Pigs Eat The Flesh Of Their Own.
Pigs
Sausage
Flesh
Czechoslovakia Provided Soviet Russia With Landing Fields For Aircraft, Thereby Increasing The Threat Against Germany.
Russia
Germany
Fields
Propaganda Must Not Serve The Truth, Especially As It Might Bring Out Something Favorable For The Opponent.
Truth
War
Drug
This Pride Of Race Is A Quality Which The German, Fundamentally, Does Not Possess. The Reason For This Is That For These Last Three Centuries The Country Has Been Torn By Internal Dissension And Religious Wars And Has Been Subjected To A Variety Of Foreign Influences, To The Influence, For Example, Of Christianity-for Christianity Is Not A Natural Religion For The Germans, But A Religion That Has Been Imported And Which Strikes No Responsive Chord In Their Hearts And Is Foreign To The Inherent Genius Of The Race. (13th February 1945)
Country
Religious
War
There Could Be No Issue Between The Church And The State. The Church, As Such, Has Nothing To Do With Political Affairs. On The Other Hand, The State Has Nothing To Do With The Faith Or Inner Organization Of The Church
Military
Hands
Organization
The German Countryside Must Be Preserved Under All Circumstances, For It Is And Has Forever Been The Source Of Strength And Greatness Of Our People.
Greatness
People
Forever
What We Have To Fight For...is The Freedom And Independence Of The Fatherland, So That Our People May Be Enabled To Fulfill The Mission Assigned To It By The Creator.
Military
Fighting
People
A Woman Must Be A Cute, Cuddly, Naive Little Thing - Tender, Sweet, And Stupid.
Cute
Sweet
Stupid
The Wage Of A People Has Meaning Only When It Arises From Production. Every Increase In Production Should Benefit The Whole People And Raise The People's Standards Of Living.
People
Benefits
Increase
Only A Handful Of Germans In The Reich Had The Slightest Conception Of The Eternal And Merciless Struggle For The German Language, German Schools, And A German Way Of Life. Only Today, When The Same Deplorable Misery Is Forced On Many Millions Of Germans From The Reich, Who Under Foreign Rule Dream Of Their Common Fatherland And Strive, Amid Their Longing, At Least To Preserve Their Holy Right To Their Mother Tongue, Do Wider Circles Understand What It Means To Be Forced To Fight For One's Nationality.
Mother
Dream
Struggle
The Spark Of A Genius Exists In The Brain Of The Truly Creative Man From The Hour Of His Birth. True Genius Is Always Inborn And Never Cultivated, Let Alone Learned.
Creativity
Science
Men
If I Can Send The Flower Of The German Nation Into The Hell Of War Without The Smallest Pity For The Shedding Of Precious German Blood, Then Surely I Have The Right To Remove Millions Of An Inferior Race That Breeds Like Vermin.
Death
Crazy
War
The Moment In Paris Where I Saluted Napoleon's Tomb Was One Of The Proudest Of My Life.
Paris
Moments
Tombs
Social Honour Recognises No Distinction Between The Employer And The Unemployed. All Of Them Work For A Common Purpose And Are Entitled To Equal Honour And Respect.
Common Purpose
Social
Employers
In This Hour I Would Ask Of The Lord God Only This: That, As In The Past, So In The Years To Come He Would Give His Blessing To Our Work And Our Action, To Our Judgement And Our Resolution, That He Will Safeguard Us From All False Pride And From All Cowardly Servility, That He May Grant To Us To Find The Straight Path Which His Providence Has Ordained For The German People, And That He May Ever Give Us The Courage To Do The Right, Never To Falter, Never To Yield Before Any Violence, Before Any Danger.
Pride
Past
Blessing
What Good Fortune For Those In Power That People Do Not Think.
Fear
Thinking
People
I Have No Further Interest In The Czecho-slovakian State, That Is Guaranteed. We Want No Czechs
War
World
Want
What We Suffer From Today Is An Excess Of Education.
Suffering
Excess
Today
Society's Needs Come Before The Individuals Needs
Needs
Individual
Tyranny
The Folkish Philosophy Is Fundamentally Distinguished From The Marxist By Reason Of The Fact That The Former Recognizes The Significance Of Race And Therefore Also Personal Worth And Has Made These The Pillars Of Its Structure. These Are The Most Important Factors Of Its View Of Life.
Philosophy
Views
Race
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.
Mistake
Race
Gun Control
Sporting Chivalrous Contest Helps Knit The Bonds Of Peace Between Nations. Therefore May The Olympic Flame Never Expire.
Flames
May
Helping
Today Christians ... Stand At The Head Of [this Country]... I Pledge That I Never Will Tie Myself To Parties Who Want To Destroy Christianity .. We Want To Fill Our Culture Again With The Christian Spirit ... We Want To Burn Out All The Recent Immoral Developments In Literature, In The Theater, And In The Press - In Short, We Want To Burn Out The Poison Of Immorality Which Has Entered Into Our Whole Life And Culture As A Result Of Liberal Excess During The Past ... (few) Years.
Christian
Country
Religious
I Shall Not Rest Until Every German Sees That It Is A Shameful Thing To Be A Lawyer.
Law
Lawyer
Shameful
Parallel To The Training Of The Body A Struggle Against The Poisoning Of The Soul Must Begin. Our Whole Public Life Today Is Like A Hothouse For Sexual Ideas And Simulations. Just Look At The Bill Of Fare Served Up In Our Movies, Vaudeville And Theaters, And You Will Hardly Be Able To Deny That This Is Not The Right Kind Of Food, Particularly For The Youth. Theater, Art, Literature, Cinema, Press, Posters, And Window Displays Must Be Cleansed Of All Manifestations Of Our Rotting World And Placed In The Service Of A Moral, Political And Cultural Idea.
Art
Struggle
Ideas
I Want Everyone To Keep The Property That He Has Acquired For Himself According To The Principle: Benefit To The Community Precedes Benefit To The Individual. But The State Should Retain Supervision And Each Property Owner Should Consider Himself Appointed By The State. It Is His Duty Not To Use His Property Against The Interests Of Others Among His Own People. This Is The Crucial Matter. The Third Reich Will Always Retain Its Right To Control The Owners Of Property.
Philosophy
People
Community
The Fox Remains Always A Fox, The Goose Remains A Goose, And The Tiger Will Retain The Character Of A Tiger.
Character
Atheism
Foxes
It Would Be More In Keeping With The Intention Of The Noblest Man In This World If Our Two Christian Churches, Instead Of Annoying Negroes With Missions Which They Neither Desire Nor Understand, Would Kindly, But In All Seriousness, Teach Our European Humanity That Where Parents Are Not Healthy It Is A Deed Pleasing To God To Take Pity On A Poor Little Healthy Orphan Child And Give Him Father And Mother, Than Themselves To Give Birth To A Sick Child Who Will Only Bring Unhappiness And Suffering On Himself And The Rest Of The World.
Christian
Mother
Religious
Great, Truly World-shaking Revolutions Of A Spiritual Nature Are Not Even Conceivable And Realizable Except As The Titanic Struggles Of Individual Formations, Never As Enterprises Of Coalitions.
Spiritual
Struggle
World
We, As Aryans, Can Conceive Of The State Only As The Living Organism Of A Nationality Which Not Only Assures The Preservation Of Its Nationality, But By The Development Of Its Spiritual And Ideal Abilities Leads It To The Highest Freedom.
Spiritual
Development
States
The Root Of The Whole Evil Lay, Particularly In Schonerer's Opinion, In The Fact That The Directing Body Of The Catholic Church Was Not In Germany, And That For This Very Reason Alone It Was Hostile To The Interests Of Our Nationality.
Roots
Evil
Catholic
Give Me An Athlete And I'll Give You An Army.
Athlete
Army
Giving
The Great Masses Of The People Will More Easily Fall Victims To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.
Lying
Fall
Thinking
As Long As Leadership From Above Was Not Lacking, The People Fulfilled Their Duty And Obligation Overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant Pastor Or Catholic Priest, Both Together And Particularly At The First Flare, There Really Existed In Both Camps But A Single Holy German Reich, For Whose Existence And Future Each Man Turned To His Own Heaven.
Religious
Men
Long
If You Wish The Sympathy Of The Broad Masses, You Must Tell Them The Crudest And Most Stupid Things.
Sympathy
Stupid
Wish
Any Violence Which Does Not Spring From A Spiritual Base, Will Be Wavering And Uncertain. It Lacks The Stability Which Can Only Rest In A Fanatical Outlook.
Spiritual
Religious
Spring
The Leader Of Genius Must Have The Ability To Make Different Opponents Appear As If They Belonged To One Category.
Military
Leader
Different
When Folk Have Set Before Them A True Purpose And Then Pursue It Unmoved With Bravery And Courage, When They Withstand With A Strong Heart Every Trial Which Heaven Sends Upon Them, Then One Day At The Last Almighty Providence Will Yet Grant Them The Fruits Of Their Struggle And Of Their Sacrifices. For God Has Never Abandoned Any Man Upon This Earth Unless He Has First Abandoned Himself.
Strong
Struggle
Heart
Armies For The Preservation Of Peace Do Not Exist; They Exist Only For The Triumphant Exertion Of War.
War
Army
Preservation
Lord God, Let Us Never Hesitate Or Play The Coward, Let Us Never Forget The Duty Which We Have Taken Upon Us.... We Are All Proud That Through God's Powerful Aid We Have Become Once More True Germans.
Powerful
Taken
Play
And So He [the Jew] Advances On His Fatal Road Until Another Force Comes Forth To Oppose Him, And In A Mighty Struggle Hurls The Heaven-stormer Back To Lucifer. Germany Is Today The Next Great War Aim Of Bolshevism. It Requires All The Force Of A Young Missionary Idea To Raise Our People Up Again, To Free Them From The Snares Of This International Serpent.
War
Struggle
Ideas
God Grant That This Is The Work Of The Communists. You Are Witnessing The Beginning Of A Great New Epoch In German History. This Fire Is The Beginning.
War
Fire
German History
Due To His Own Original Special Nature, The Jew Cannot Possess A Religious Institution, If For No Other Reason Because He Lacks Idealism In Any Form, And Hence Belief In A Hereafter Is Absolutely Foreign To Him. And A Religion In The Aryan Sense Cannot Be Imagined Which Lacks The Conviction Of Survival After Death In Some Form. Indeed, The Talmud Is Not A Book To Prepare A Man For The Hereafter, But Only For A Practical And Profitable Life In This World.
Religious
Book
Men
The President Of The United States Has A Much Wider Power Than The German Kaiser Had, For He Depended On Parliament.
President
United States
Parliament
For Over Five Years This Man [winston Churchill] Has Been Chasing Around Europe Like A Madman In Search Of Something He Could Set On Fire. Unfortunately He Again And Again Finds Hirelings Who Open The Gates Of Their Country To This International Incendiary.
Country
Men
Fire
When Our Party Had Only Seven Men, It Already Had Two Principles. First, It Wanted To Be A Party With A True Ideology. And Second, It Wanted To Be The One And Only Power In Germany.
Party
Men
Two
As Long As The National Socialist Movement Is Leading Germany-and That Will Be The Case For The Next Few Centuries, No Matter How Often Our Emigrants Conjure Up The Opposite View- This Opinion Will Not Change.
Views
Opposites
Long
Pride In One's Own Race - And That Does Not Imply Contempt For Other Races - Is Also A Normal And Healthy Sentiment. I Have Never Regarded The Chinese Or The Japanese As Being Inferior To Ourselves. They Belong To Ancient Civilizations, And I Admit Freely That Their Past History Is Superior To Our Own. They Have The Right To Be Proud Of Their Past, Just As We Have The Right To Be Proud Of The Civilization To Which We Belong. Indeed, I Believe The More Steadfast The Chinese And The Japanese Remain In Their Pride Of Race, The Easier I Shall Find It To Get On With Them.
Believe
Pride
Past
The Size Of The Lie Is A Definite Factor In Causing It To Be Believed, For The Vast Masses Of The Nation Are In The Depths Of Their Hearts More Easily Deceived Than They Are Consciously And Intentionally Bad. The Primitive Simplicity Of Their Minds Renders Them A More Easy Prey To A Big Lie Than A Small One, For They Themselves Often Tell Little Lies But Would Be Ashamed To Tell A Big One.
Lying
Heart
Simplicity
You, My Brown Guard, Will Regard It As A Matter Of Course That This German People Should Go Only By The Way Which Providence Ordained For It When It Gave To Germans The Common Language. So We Go Forward With The Profoundest Faith In God Into The Future. Would That Which We Have Achieved Have Been Possible If Providence Had Not Helped Us?
People
Atheism
Matter
By Means Of Shrewd Lies, Unremittingly Repeated, It Is Possible To Make People Believe That Heaven Is Hell - And Hell Heaven. The Greater The Lie, The More Readily It Will Be Believed.
Crazy
Lying
Believe
On Positive Liberty: The Business Of The State Is To Use Its Organizing Powers For The Purpose Of Furnishing The Necessary Conditions Which Allow This People Freely To Unfold Its Creative Faculties.
Philosophy
People
Creative
Since I Have Fought Against These Jewish-soviet Ideas In Germany, Since I Have Conquered And Stamped Out This Peril, I Fancy That I Possess A Better Comprehension Of Its Character Than Do These Men Who Have Only To Deal With It In The Field Of Literature.
Character
Men
Ideas
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

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Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


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Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


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Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


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Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


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5.1. Overusing Quotes

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5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


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Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


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In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



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Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


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Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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