Nazi Quotes - Page 4

• It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or whatever concept is being laid over the play, then it is to see a production of Shakespeare in which there is no conceptual overlay and the play is simply being presented on its own terms.

  Terry Teachout

  Common, Homosexual, Term

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Legitimate steps of self-defence which Israel takes in its war against Palestinian terror - actions which any sovereign state is obligated to undertake to ensure the security of its citizens - are presented by those who hate Israel as aggressive, Nazi-like steps.

  Ariel Sharon

  Hate, War, Israel

  "We must rely on ourselves, says Sharon" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2005.

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• It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Book, Yesterday

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I was seduced by the nouvelle vague, because it was really reinventing everything. And the Italian cinema that one would see in the theaters in the late '50s, early '60s was Italian comedy, Italian style, which, to me, was like the end of neo-realism. I think cinema all over the world was influenced by it, which was Italy finding its freedom at the end of fascism, the end of the Nazi invasion. It was a kind of incredible energy. Then, late '50s, early '60s, the neo-realism lost its great energy and became comedy.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Italian, Thinking, Style

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Holocaust, Suffering

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• When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.

  Steven Spielberg

  Mother, Hands, Symphony

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• In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

  Jack Steinberger

  Education, Children, School

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• My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

  Donald Tusk

  People, Borders, Communist

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• I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

  Jaron Lanier

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The end was surely near. The Nazis killed you only when you were naked, because they knew, psychologically, that naked people never resist.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  People, Naked, Ends

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• The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Liberty, Movement

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• At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Ideas, Germany, Austria

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• Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

  Sandra Bullock

  Racism, Sexism, Anti Semitism

  "Bullock filing for divorce, reveals she has baby" by Courtney Hazlett, www.today.com. April 28, 2010.

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• We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

  Robert Byrd

  Men, Law, Majority

  Sen. Robert C. Byrd (2008). “Letter to a New President: Commonsense Lessons for Our Next Leader”, p.83, Macmillan

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• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Girl, Fighting, Littles

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.

  Stephen Covey

  Exercise, Viktor Frankl, Liberty

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• You look at the Russian side: They're defending their territory from the beginning. They move west to destroy the Nazis. And they take out the guts of the German war machine per Winston Churchill, who said that they won the war. From the beginning, we were hostile to the guys who had saved how many American lives by their repulsion of the Nazis? I think the Americans lost 400,000 in the whole war. And the Americans knew it at the time. They gave Joseph Stalin credit. He was the man of the year, cover of Life magazine in 1943; he was a hero.

  Oliver Stone

  War, Moving, Hero

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Interesting, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.164, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.

  Jostein Gaarder

  War, Murderer, Unreasonable

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• President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.

  Bill Maher

  Father, President, Comedy

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• Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Humor, People

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• I find period pieces really difficult to get my head around. How can we know what it must have been like to be in Nazi Germany in 1944? The reality weighs on me because I feel like you want to try and honor what happened, but how can you truly know? I have never lived in a war or lost anyone.

  Diane Kruger

  War, Reality, Honor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I gazed around the room and my eyes stopped dead on a little boy standing in the corner. This was a particularly eerie doll. Life-sized and blond-haired and blue-eyed. I saw a little Nazi boy, pockets probably stuffed with scissors and retractable blades. My grandfather on my mother's side was rumored to be half Jewish, which practically makes me Jerry Seinfeld's brother, and thus wary of blond German boys with their hands out of sight.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mother, Brother, Eye

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Possible Side Effects”, p.69, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Remember not all Germans were Nazis.

  Erin Gruwell

  Remember

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.53, Broadway Books

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• In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened a bureau for advice to the public in church matters. Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership. The German Freethinkers League, which was swept away by the national revolution, was the largest of such organizations in Germany. It had about 500,000 members.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Winning, Organization

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