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Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the "higher power" of nature.

In other words, ideas can become powerful forces, but only to the extent to which they are answers to specific human needs prominent in a given social character.

Hope is a decisive element in any attempt to bring about social change in the direction of greater aliveness, awareness, and reason.

The task of critique is not to denounce the ideals, but to show their transformation into ideologies, and to challenge the ideology in the name of the betrayed ideal

Psychology as a science has its limitations, and, as the logical consequence of theology is mysticism, so the ultimate consequence of psychology is love.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called "equality." Union

The courage of despair is the opposite of the courage of love, just as the faith in power is the opposite of the faith in life.

What matters is that new forms of propertylessness will do away with the sexual greed that is characteristic of all having societies.

Whether we deal with primitive religions, with theistic or non-theistic religions, they are all attempts to give an answer to man's existential problem.

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

Der Autor (...) sieht, daß die Zeitgenossen, störrisch wie die Esel, rückwärts laufen, einem klaffenden Abgrund entgegen, in dem Platz für sämtliche Völker Europas ist. Und so ruft er, wie eine Reihe Anderer vor ihm und außer ihm: Achtung, beim Absturz linke Hand am linken Griff!

Peace, a fireplace, books, silence ... Before this was seen as one philistinism. Now these are dreams of a lost paradise.

The small tool of death was like a dynamo of life.

A bitch. No prostitute. A bitch. If you were a Russian you would understand.

I said no more and made off. It is no use quarrelling with excited maternal instincts. They have the moral support of the entire world behind them.

I tell you it is the vilest business to use horses in the war.

Perhaps, thought I, perhaps—always that word, one never could escape it. It was certainty we lacked, certainty that everyone and everything lacked.

Her blind endorsement of Hitler's regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached

At the Quebec prison, he had read Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, then had autographed the book and given it to a guard for a souvenir.

Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, "Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off.

These were complicated people moving through a complicated time, before the monsters declared their true nature.

He cared little about whether they had expertise with airplanes. "They are all captains of industry, and industry is like theology," Beaverbrook said. "If you know the rudiments of one faith you can grasp the meaning of another.

Galveston was too pretty, too progressive, too prosperous—entirely too hopeful—to be true.

The list of appetizers included stuffed eagles' eggs.