H Quotes
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“hitherto you have experienced truth only with the abstract intellect. I will bring you where you can taste it like honey and be embraced by it as by a bridegroom. Your thirst shall be quenched." - The Great Divorce”
“Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)
“Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.”
Source: Karl Marx: A Reader
“Hitherto, no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science.”
Source: The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation by Charles Lyell
“Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.”
“Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.”
“Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.”
“Hitler always styled himself as a man who renounced all personal happiness in the service of his people. There is no conclusive evidence of this, but I believe that behind the smokescreen of discretion, Hitler had a very normal love life with Eva Braun.”
“Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's first priority should be to separate propaganda from fact - but sometimes its very hard to do that.”
“Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.”
“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.”
“Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war.”
“Hitler believed in the Aryan ideology, but he wanted the betterment of the whole community and not that of an individual. Which terms contradict each other in themselves.”
“Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.”
“Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.”
“Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.”
“Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.”
“Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.”
“Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and exploited for his purposes the powerful socialist traditions of Germany. The adjectives 'socialist' and 'worker' in the official name of Hitler's party ('The Nationalist-Socialist German Workers' Party') had not merely propagandistic value... On one occasion, in the midst of World War II, Hitler even declared that 'basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.'”
“Hitler didn't snub me - it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.”
“Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.”
“Hitler frequently demonstrated diffidence and unease in dealings with individuals which contrasted diametrically with his self-confident mastery in exploiting the emotions of his listeners in the theatrical setting of a major speech.”
Source: Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris
“Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.”
“Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.”
“Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.”
Source: Hitler, a study in tyranny
“Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.”
“Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact that he knows absolutely nothing about matters economic, he cannot even fully understand his economic advisers. . . . His constant worry has ever been to keep himself in power. . . . He believes that he alone is a great man, and all others non-entities.”
“Hitler had charm, loved children, charmed women. But in political respects he would stop at nothing. In other respects he had soft and touching emotions. Just as he could be terribly brutal in following up political ideas, so he could be humanely sensitive for the feelings of individuals, for the individual human life.”
“Hitler had the right idea. He was just an underachiever.”
“Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia - each one he could have conquered individually - these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.”
“Hitler had this understanding that you speak to people's deepest, darkest emotions and give them voice that can be incredibly effective.”
“Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.”
“Hitler is a prodigious genius.”
“Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.”
“Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.”
Source: The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings
“Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition
“Hitler is associated with the word evil because he wanted to create a new colony or space in Europe, rather than Africa and Asia.”
“Hitler is endless proof of God's love and blessing for which we ever must be grateful.”
“Hitler is simply pure reason incarnate”
“Hitler is still such a popular man; we are afraid of the Hitler myth. We want to give to the German people and to the world the final proof by means of the Supreme Court-Martial and its verdict.”
“Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”
“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”
“Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics.”
Source: From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
“Hitler lied shamelessly about himself and about his enemies. He convinced millions of men and women that he cared for them deeply when, in fact, he would have willingly sacrificed them all. His murderous ambition, avowed racism, and utter immorality were given the thinnest mask, and yet millions of Germans were drawn to Hitler precisely because he seemed authentic. They screamed, “Sieg Heil” with happiness in their hearts, because they thought they were creating a better world.”
Source: Fascism: A Warning
“Hitler loved to describe any newspaper that exposed him for what he was as Luegenpresse, which is German for Fake News.”
Source: How to Defeat the Trump Cult: Want to Save Democracy? Share This Book
“Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.”
Source: Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader
“Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table.”
Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“Hitler not from a woman is born, but from the men bitterness.(Hitler n'est pas né d'une femme, - Mais de l'amertume des hommes)”
“Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.”
“Hitler picked nervously at his vegetarian food.”
Source: Admiral Nicholas Horthy: Memoirs