Nazi Quotes - Page 14

• Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Enemy, Certain, Mankind

  "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.

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• I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Teenage, Honey

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• I was born just after the end of World War II, and with my friends in our little suburban backyards in New Jersey, we used to play war a lot. I don't know if boys still play war, they probably do, but we were thrusting ourselves into recent history and we were always fighting either the Nazis or the Japanese.

  Paul Auster

  War, Fighting, Boys

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• The Scriptures have been misused to defend bloody crusades and inquisitions; to support slavery, apartheid, and segregation; to sanction the physical and emotional abuse of women and children; to persecute Jews and other non-Christian people of faith; to support the holocaust of Hitler's Third Reich; to oppose medical science; to condemn inter-racial marriage; to execute women as witches; to excuse the violent racism of the Ku Klux Klan; to mobilize militias, white supremacy and neo-nazi movements; and to condone intolerance and discrimination against sexual minorities.

  Mel White

  Christian, Children, Gay

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• Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Powerful, War, Greatness

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• I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the face of Nazis, in the face of apartheid, that I would have joined those armies. But that's the last, last resort.

  Cornel West

  War, Army, Thinking

  Source: genius.com

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• I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts. An occasional seduction maybe. There were very few insincere Stalinists or Nazis.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  People, Effort, Political

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• Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Iraq, Leader

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• It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists. All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals.

  John Lydon

  War, Gay, Black

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• If you mention Adolf Hitler or Nazis within a discussion thread, you've automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.

  Mike Godwin

  Thread, Discussion, Ifs

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• Did you ever notice how many survivors they have? Did you ever notice that? Everybody - every time you turn around, 15,000 survivors meet here, 400 survivors convention there. I mean, did you ever notice? Nazis sure were inefficient, weren't they? Boy, boy, boy! ...You almost have no survivors that ever say they saw a gas chamber or saw the workings of a gas chamber...they'll say these preposterous stories that anybody can check out to be a lie, an absolute lie.

  David Duke

  Lying, Mean, Boys

  Interview with Evelyn Rich, March 1985.

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• In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there.

  Hermann Hesse

  War, Fall, Germany

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• How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.

  Woody Allen

  Understanding, Hell, Know How

  "Hannah and Her Sisters". www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

  Dorothy Day

  Believe, Goal, Fundamentals

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• One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true

  John Fowles

  Order, Opposites, Rose

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

  Norman Mailer

  Night, Years, Civilization

  Norman Mailer (1970). “Cannibals and Christians”

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• I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were calling musty, middle-class, and fascistic, a bleak period. Bleak was what the GDR was, and it alone had adopted, almost unchanged, Nazi Germany's methods of intimidation and ideas about propaganda and the use of force.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Class, Ideas

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• Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

  James F. Byrnes

  War, Germany, Cost

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• The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.

  Tim Roth

  Roles, Firsts

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• We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

  Nick Clooney

  Becoming, Defeat

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• I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.

  Jacques Audiard

  Boys, People, Parent

  "All that glisters..." by Peter Lennon, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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• The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting "Sieg Health" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Party, Believe, Health

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Thinking, Should Have

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek and Chris Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right thing to do? To destroy and burn Jews.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Humanity, Germany

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• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  Walter Ulbricht

  Secret, West, Population

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