Surely, I thought, the dog-loving Adolf Hitler
must have said one or two good
(or at least interesting) things in his thick declaration.
And indeed he did...just a few.
• 'In certain circles honesty is taken as an index of stupidity.'
• 'There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election.'
• 'Whenever human activity is directed exclusively to the service of the instinct for self-preservation it is called theft or usury, robbery or burglary etc.'
• 'Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain.'
• 'His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.'
• 'I can fight only for something that I love. I can love only what I respect. And in order to respect a thing I must at least have some knowledge of it.'
• 'In this world is not the creative act of the genius always a protest against the inertia of the mass?'
• 'I wanted to become a painter and no power in the world could force me to become a civil servant.'
• 'Be proud of your compatriots when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.
[I guess the best way to achieve that is to eliminate the social class(es) which engender your shame.]
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