W Quotes
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“When Hitler addressed the Reichstag in January 1934, he could look back on a year of achievement without parallel in German history. Within twelve months he had overthrown the Weimar Republic, substituted his personal dictatorship for its democracy, destroyed all political parties but his own, smashed the state governments and their parliaments and unified and defederalized the Reich, wiped out the labor unions, stamped out democratic associations of any kind, driven the Jews out of public and professional life, abolished freedom of speech and of the press, stifled the independence of the courts and "co-ordinated" under Nazi rule, the political, economic, cultural and social life of an ancient and cultivated people.”
Source: Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Part 2 of 4
“When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church - and there was nobody left to be concerned.”
“When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.”
“When Hitler marched
across the Rhine
To take the land of France,
La dame de fer decided,
‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’
Let him take the land and city,
The hills and every flower,
One thing he will never have,
The elegant Eiffel Tower.
The French cut the cables,
The elevators stood still,
‘If he wants to reach the top,
Let him walk it, if he will.’
The invaders hung a swastika
The largest ever seen.
But a fresh breeze blew
And away it flew,
Never more to be seen.
They hung up a second mark,
Smaller than the first,
But a patriot climbed
With a thought in mind:
‘Never your duty shirk.’
Up the iron lady
He stealthily made his way,
Hanging the bright tricolour,
He heroically saved the day.
Then, for some strange reason,
A mystery to this day,
Hitler never climbed the tower,
On the ground he had to stay.
At last he ordered she be razed
Down to a twisted pile.
A futile attack, for still she stands
Beaming her metallic smile.”
Source: Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“When hoards of people without a job,
become a bigoted lynching mob.
When talking wisely makes you a ghoul,
while being ignorant is so cool.
When influencers and entertainers are the new gods,
and a handful of money buys cheerleading squads.
When every leader sounds the same,
as gaining power becomes their only aim.
When you see the above things,
it will tell you which tune the time sings.
That is how you know it is not a democracy,
and is instead a supine kakistocracy.”
“When HOLINESS loses its sweetness it is a fierce thing to come in contact with.”
“When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.”
“When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.”
Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
“When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.”
“When home, I use my smart phone the same way I use a traditional corded home telephone and answering machine.”
“When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.”
Source: John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people
“When homeless people go camping, how do they know?”
“When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.”
“When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful. At the same time, the liars who've been trying to silence them shrink and they become weaker. That's the iron law of the universe. True things prevail. Where can you still find Americans saying true things? There aren't many places left, but there are some, and that's enough. As long as you can hear the words, there is hope. See you soon.”
“When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]”
Source: The black jewels trilogy
“When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.”
“When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.”
Source: Songs, Legends and Ballads
“When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.”
“When Hope disappears ~ Faith steps in...”
“when hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible”
Source: Hope Was Here
“When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.”
“When hope is gone, time is punishment.”
“When hope is hungry, everything feeds it”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.”
“When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.”
“When hope is reduced to a soundbite, it will leave us starving and betrayed. Genuine hope is the nourishing fuel of imagination and resistance.”
“When hope is restored, there heart is refreshed.”
“When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.”
“When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely.”
“When hope seems like a faded memory, remember love and hope will return stronger than ever.”
Source: Secrets of My Heart
“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.”
“When hormones rage and the world feels too loud, society is quick to label us as “troubled” or “weird” for expressing who we really are. Instead of nurturing that authenticity, we’re often pushed into boxes that don’t fit.”
Source: The Deep Doesn’t Drown Me: A surreal coming-of-age story for outsiders, dreamers, and survivors
“When horror is associated with what is harmful, evil results, when disgust does, badness.”
“When horror turns into gore, when you show the monster, the killings, and the blood, it loses its suggestive powers. It loses part of what makes a horror film a horror film, which is that the images you see develop in your brain and you become the one imagining what you are not seeing on screen.”
“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”
Source: And Even Now
“When hosting a friend, remember they're giving you the most valuable gift they have - time.”
“When hosting a party, move any clutter from the space where you're entertaining.”
“When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.”
“When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.”
“When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.”
“When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young whippersnapper and Howard was kind of an outlaw hero. I said to him - and it's on tape, a cousin of his filmed our meeting - I said, "If you write a book, I want to play you in a movie." He said, "Let's shake on it," and we did. Thirteen years later, there we were, making the movie.”
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
Source: A Room of One’s Own
“when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble.”
“When HSBC took the painting out of their building, they had to block the road and use a crane to bring the painting out from the window. They spent about 20,000 dollars just to get the painting out of the building! They said not to bring it back, and told Sotheby's to sell it immediately!”
“When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why, in the final analysis, worship and law cannot be completely separated from each other. God has a right to a response from man, to man himself, and where that right of God totally disappears, the order of law among men is dissolved, because there is no cornerstone to keep the whole structure together.”
Source: Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy
“When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.”
“When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That's dangerous for human development.”
“When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.”
Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world