Nazi Quotes - Page 12

• I know from firsthand experience that our environment and the things and people who cross our paths make all the difference. If people have no prospects for a decent job or a place to belong, it leaves them vulnerable to whoever comes along. For me, it was a Nazi skinhead.

  Christian Picciolini

  People, Path, Environment

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• If you think about determination, if people have a heart and are determined, they can get to that place. But there are a lot of negative people who were enormously determined. All the Nazis were determined. They wanted to murder everyone. Everyone with a bad heart, who doesn't care about people, I wish they hadn't started.

  Eddie Izzard

  Determination, Heart, Thinking

  "I Believe That Eddie Izzard Is Our Future". Interview with Ali MacLean, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2010.

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• My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Father, Years, Icons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why, of course, the people don't want war.

  Hermann Goring

  War, Communist Leaders, Political Will

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• The worst criminals of our time are the US and UK governments. Both are devoid of all integrity, all honor, all mercy, all humanity. Many members of both governments would have made perfect functionaries in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Integrity, Russia, Government

  Paul Craig Roberts (2014). “How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State”, p.378, Atwell Publishing

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• He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Groups, Brutality, Faults

  Interview, 1989.

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• Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country...the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Country, Heart, Men

  Statement made in World War II, as a commissar on the southern front, as quoted in "Leonid I. Brezhnev: Pages from his Life" by Academy of Sciences of the USSR, p. 49, 1978.

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• The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves and pretend to have again become normal and customary humans who ask each other's pardon instead of eating one another or sucking each other's blood. The entertaining folly of war evaporates, distinguished boredom sits down again on the dignified old overstuffed chairs.. .May I report about myself that I have had a truly grotesque time, brim-full with work, Nazi persecutions, bombs, hunger, and again and again work - in spite of everything [a. o. using his bed sheets as canvas for the new paintings].

  Max Beckmann

  War, Blood, Boredom

  "Max Beckmann". Book by Stephan Lackner, 1983.

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• The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other.

  Woody Allen

  People, Childhood, Different

  "Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

  Dick Beddoes

  War, Team, Different

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• The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, perverted, nationalistic cult, by which a few major artists and many minor ones were honored for their Germanness, not their talent.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Artist, Culture, Talent

  "Christopher and His Kind". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 65, 1976.

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• Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Connoisseur, Utopian

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.45, Yale University Press

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• I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.

  Enoch Powell

  Fighting, Nazism, Born

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 489), 1999.

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• I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.

  Stanley Milgram

  People, Intuition, United States

  Sixty Minutes Interview, March 31, 1979.

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• Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Responsibility, Psychics

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.248, Seven Stories Press

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• If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Stupid, Philosophy, Men

  "Springtime For Slanderers" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. January 5, 2001.

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• I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Latin, Book, Reading

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust.

  Mike Godwin

  Thinking, Holocaust, Folks

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• If you think that UFOs will come and save you, don't be fooled. The Nazis invented UFOs.

  Eric Burdon

  Thinking, Ufo, Fooled

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• Whether we consider Nazi Germany or Abu Ghraib prison, there were many people who observed what was happening and said nothing. At Abu Ghraib, one photo shows two soldiers smiling before a pyramid of naked prisoners while a dozen other soldiers stand around watching passively. If you observe such abuses and don't say, "This is wrong! Stop it!" you give tacit approval to continue. You are part of the silent majority that makes evil deeds more acceptable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Two, Pyramids, Evil

  "The Banality of Heroism" by Zeno Franco, Philip Zimbardo, greatergood.berkeley.edu. September 1, 2006.

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• I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.

  Michael Caine

  Real, Character, Sleep

  "Profile and Interview: Michael Caine". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January, 2004.

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• No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Military, Design, Leader

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• Let's forgive the Nazi war criminals.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Forgiving, Criminals

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• The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.

  Anderson Cooper

  Literature, Able, Groups

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• Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in World War II, World War II is simply not comprehensible.

  Peter Bergen

  War, Stories, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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