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The National State Divides Its Inhabitants Into Three Classes: State Citizens, State Subjects, And Foreigners. It Must Be Held In Greater Honour To Be A Citizen Of This Reich Even If Only A Crossing-sweeper, Than To Be A King In A Foreign State.
-Adolf Hitler
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The National State Divides

Adolf Hitler
The National State Divides Its Inhabitants Into Three Classes: State Citizens, State Subjects, And Foreigners. It Must Be Held In Greater Honour To Be A Citizen Of This Reich Even If Only A Crossing-sweeper, Than To Be A King In A Foreign State.
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States
I Can Not Be Mistaken - What I Say And Do Is Historical.i Follow My Life With The Precision And Security Of A Sleep Walker
Sleep
Historical
Precision
How Fortunate For Leaders That Men Do Not Think (also, What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think).
Men
Thinking
Leader
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.
War
Character
People
Either One Is Factually Equal, And Consequently Morally Equal As Well; On The Other Hand, If One Is Morally Equal, There Is No Reason Why One Should Contest Factual Equality Of Rights Or Simply Refuse To Grant Them.
Hands
Rights
Reason Why
They [german Princes] Made A Pact With The Devil And Landed In Hell.
Devil
Hell
Made
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
I Am Convinced That I Am Acting As The Agent Of Our Almighty Creator. By Fighting The Jews, I Am Doing The Lord's Work.
Fighting
Religion
Atheism
The Jew Has Always Been A People With Definite Racial Characteristics And Never A Religion.
People
Mein Kampf
Characteristics
I Wish To Give Officials Greater Discretion. The State's Authority Will Be Increased Thereby. I Wish To Transform The Non-political Criminal Police Into A Political Instrument Of The Highest State Authority.
Giving
Political
Police
I Know It Is Unpopular. I Know The Timing Is Unpopular. I Know The Whole Thing Is Unpopular. But I Believe It Is The Right Thing.
Believe
Timing
Whole
To Whom Should Propaganda Be Addressed? To The Scientifically Trained Intelligentsia Or The Less Educated Masses? It Must Be Addressed Always And Exclusively To The Masses.
Media
Propaganda
Should
Today Our Achievements Are So Vast That The Whole World Has Become Interested In Them.
Achievement
World
Today
The Purpose Of Propaganda Is Not To Provide Interesting Distraction For Blasé Young Gentlemen, But To Convince... The Masses. But The Masses Are Slow Moving, And They Always Require A Certain Time Before They Are Ready Even To Notice A Thing, And Only After The Simplest Ideas Are Repeated Thousands Of Times Will The Masses Finally Remember Them.
Moving
Media
Ideas
A Stronger Race Will Drive Out The Weaker Ones, For The Vital Urge In Its Ultimate Form Will Break Down The Absurd Barriers Of The So Called Humanity Of Individuals To Make Way For The Humanity Of Nature Which Destroys The Weak To Give Their Place To The Strong.
Strong
Race
Giving
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
Today I Will Once More Be A Prophet. If The International Jewish Financiers, Inside And Outside Europe, Succeed In Plunging The Nations Once More Into A World War, Then The Result Will Not Be The Bolshevisation Of The Earth, And Thus The Victory Of Jewry, But The Annihilation Of The Jewish Race In Europe!
War
Race
Europe
Neutrals And Lukewarms Do Not Make History.
Universal Education Is The Most Corroding And Disintegrating Poison That Liberalism Has Ever Invented For Its Own Destruction.
Education
School
Rise To Power
In This World Him Who Does Not Abandon Himself The Almighty Will Not Desert. Him Who Helps Himself Will The Almighty Always Also Help; He Will Show Him The Way By Which He Can Gain His Rights, His Freedom, And Therefore His Future.
Rights
Atheism
Doe
For There Is One Thing We Must Never Forget... The Majority Can Never Replace The Man. And No More Than A Hundred Empty Heads Make One Wise Man Will An Heroic Decision Arise From A Hundred Cowards.
Wise
Military
Men
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
Czechoslovakia Has Ceased To Exist.
War
World
Czechoslovakia
Today Christians... Stand At The Head Of Germany... We Want To Fill Our Culture Again With The Christian Spirit.
Christian
Faith Religion
Germany
Man Has Become Great Through Struggle
Military
Struggle
Men
Woman's World Is Her Husband, Her Family, Her Children And Her Home. We Do Not Find It Right When She Presses Into The World Of Men.
Children
Husband
Home
This Human World Of Ours Would Be Inconceivable Without The Practical Existence Of A Religious Belief.
Religious
Catholic Religion
Atheism
The Union Of Theorizer, Organizer, And Leader In One Man Is The Rarest Phenomenon On Earth; Therein Lies Greatness.
Lying
Greatness
Men
People Are More Likely To Believe A Big Lie Than A Small One.
Lying
Believe
People
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
Catholics And Protestants Are Fighting With One Another... While The Enemy Of Aryan Humanity And All Christendom Is Laughing Up His Sleeve.
Religious
Fighting
Laughing
It Must Never Be Forgotten That Nothing That Is Really Great In This World Has Ever Been Achieved By Coalitions, But That It Has Always Been The Success Of A Single Victor. Coalition Successes Bear By The Very Nature Of Their Origin The Germ Of Future Crumbling, In Fact Of The Loss Of What Has Already Been Achieved. 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
Loss
Germany Has Solemnly Recognized And Guaranteed France Her Frontiers As Determined After The Saar Plebiscite... We Thereby Finally Renounced All Claims To Alsace-lorraine, A Land For Which We Have Fought Two Great Wars.
War
Land
Two
Neither I Nor Anyone Else In Germany Would Even Consider Placing Any "conditions" On Our Possible Return To The League Of Nations. Whether Or Not We Return To This Body Depends Exclusively Upon Whether We Can Belong To It As A Completely Equal Nation. This Is Not A "condition," But A Matter Of Course.
League
Body
Matter
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
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
The One Means That Wins The Easiest Victory Over Reason Is Terror And Force.
Mean
Winning
Power
The Holocaust Is The Solution To The Jews Final Question
Holocaust
Finals
Jew
A Man Does Not Die For Something Which He Himself Does Not Believe In.
Believe
Men
Doe
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
Christianity Could Not Content Itself With Building Up Its Own Altar; It Was Absolutely Forced To Undertake The Destruction Of The Heathen Altars. Only From This Fanatical Intolerance Could Its Apodictic Faith Take Form; This Intolerance Is, In Fact, Its Absolute Presupposition.
Religious
Building Up
Facts
We Wish To Fill Our Culture Once More With The Spirit Of Christianity - But Not Only In Theory.
Wish
Culture
Spirit
The National Government Sees In Both Christian Denominations The Most Important Factor For The Maintenance Of Our Society.
Christian
Government
Religion
Pacifism Is Simply Undisguised Cowardice.
Cowardice
Pacifism
The Government Will Make Use Of These Powers Only Insofar As They Are Essential For Carrying Out Vitally Necessary Measures.... The Separate Existence Of The Federal States Will Not Be Done Away.... The Number Of Cases In Which An Internal Necessity Exists For Having Recourse To Such Law Is In Itself A Limited One.
Power
Law
Numbers
For We Love Liberty Just As We Love Peace.
Liberty
As Fuehrer Of The German People And Chancellor Of The Reich, I Can Thank God At This Moment That He Has So Wonderfully Blessed Us In Our Hard Struggle For What Is Our Right, And Beg Him That We And All Other Nations May Find The Right Way, So That Not Only The German People But All Europe May Once More Be Granted The Blessing Of Peace.
Struggle
Blessed
Blessing
[it Is] Useful To Know The Laws Of Nature - For That Enables Us To Obey Them. To Act Otherwise Would Be To Rise In Revolt Against Heaven.
Law
Heaven
Would Be
Democracy, The Deceitful Theory That The Jew Would Insinuate - Namely, That Theory That All Men Are Created Equal.
Men
Democracy
Deceitful
I Was Not In Agreement With The Sharp Anti-semitic Tone, But From Time To Time I Read Arguments Which Gave Me Some Food For Thought. At All Events, These Occasions Slowly Made Me Acquainted With The Man And The Movement, Which In Those Days Guided Vienna's Destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger And The Christian Social Party.
Christian
Religious
Party
The World Will Not Help, The People Must Help Themselves. Its Own Strength Is The Source Of Life. That Strength The Almighty Has Given Us To Use; That In It And Through It, We May Wage The Battle Of Our Life The Others In The Past Years Have Not Had The Blessing Of The Almighty - Of Him Who In The Last Resort, Whatever Man May Do, Holds In His Hands The Final Decision. Lord God, Let Us Never Hesitate Or Play The Coward.
Military
Men
Blessing
Remain Strong In Your Faith, As You Were In Former Years. In This Faith, In Its Close-knit Unity Our People To-day Goes Straight Forward On Its Way And No Power On Earth Will Avail To Stop It.
Strong
Years
People
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
If Only One Country, For Whatever Reason, Tolerates A Jewish Family In It, That Family Will Become The Germ Center For Fresh Sedition. If One Little Jewish Boy Survives Without Any Jewish Education, With No Synagogue And No Hebrew School, It [judaism] Is In His Soul. Even If There Had Never Been A Synagogue Or A Jewish School Or An Old Testament, The Jewish Spirit Would Still Exist And Exert Its Influence. It Has Been There From The Beginning And There Is No Jew, Not A Single One, Who Does Not Personify It.
Country
School
Boys
Czechoslovakia Provided Soviet Russia With Landing Fields For Aircraft, Thereby Increasing The Threat Against Germany.
Russia
Germany
Fields
He Alone, Who Owns The Youth, Gains The Future.
Rise To Power
Individual Happiness
Church Ministry
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 . . . We Need Believing People.
Religious
Believe
School
If Providence Had Not Guided Us I Would Often Never Have Found These Dizzy Paths. Thus, It Is That We National Socialists Have In The Depths Of Our Hearts Our Faith. No Man Can Fashion World History Or The History Of Peoples Unless Upon His Purpose And His Powers There Rests The Blessing Of This Providence.
Fashion
Heart
Men
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

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

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.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

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.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

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


4.3. Attribution and Citation

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


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


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.


6.2. Journalism

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


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

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



7. Punctuation and Formatting


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


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



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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