Top 37 Eichmann's Quotes
#1. If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.
Adolf Eichmann
#3. It's a life of five-card draw, and you know what? When God asked me - I'm fine with the card I got. I'm gonna play this.
Artie Lange
#4. To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
Adolf Eichmann
#5. I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
Adolf Eichmann
#6. Leon Wells told of Operation 1005, the group of Jewish prisoners assigned to eradicate the evidence by opening mass graves and exhuming, burning, and pulverizing the bodies.
-- The Eichmann Trial, page 87
Deborah E. Lipstadt
#7. None of my 'clients' - not Eichmann, not Stangl, not Mengele, and not even Hitler or Stalin - was born a criminal. Somebody had to teach them to hate: maybe the society, maybe the politics, maybe just a Jewish prostitute.
Simon Wiesenthal
#8. I'm like Will Rogers, I never met a man I didn't like ... well, Eichmann maybe.
Jack Benny
#9. Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#10. Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
Rudolf Arnheim
#11. On one occasion, when he was about to be taken from the interrogation room, he thought he was going to be shot. His knees buckled and he cried out in a pleading voice: "I have not told you everything yet".
-- The Eichmann Trial, page 44
Deborah E. Lipstadt
#12. [Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.
Katherine Dunn
#14. Ultimately, Hausner's efforts regarding the murder were thwarted when questions posed by both Servatius and the judges proved that Avraham Gordon, whom Hausner called as the witness to the murder, could not have observed it.
-- The Eichmann Trial, page 99
Deborah E. Lipstadt
#15. We've built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.
Charles Wheelan
#16. I'm very interested in architecture.
Nikki Sixx
#18. I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.
Adolf Eichmann
#19. If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.
Ryan Gosling
#20. I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.
Adolf Eichmann
#21. At one point Malkin and one of his colleagues took Eichmann to the toilet. They waited outside. After a few minutes, Eichmann called out to Malkin, 'Darf ich anfangen?' ('May I begin?') Only when told yes did he begin to move his bowels.
The Eichmann Trial, page 17
Deborah E. Lipstadt
#22. Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps ...
Stanley Milgram
#23. Courage is not absence of fear; it is control of fear, mastery of fear." - MARK TWAIN
Brian Tracy
#24. Heydrich, Eichmann, and company therefore invoke the usual trick of argument for breaking a true continuum that lacks a compelling point for separation: choose an arbitrary dividing line and then treat it as a self-evident law of nature.
Stephen Jay Gould
#25. I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.
Adolf Eichmann
#27. Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.
Adolf Eichmann
#28. There is nothing that fascinates us more, little that agitates the body more completely. Information warns us of danger, prepares us for action, helps us survive. And it enables us to perform that most magical of all tricks - predicting the future.
John Coates
#29. I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
Ed Harris
#30. From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.
Adolf Eichmann
#31. My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.
Adolf Eichmann
#32. The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#33. What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?
Hannah Arendt
#34. Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.
Adolf Eichmann
#35. No, Eichmann assured him, there was no specific talk of killing methods.
-- The Eichmann Trial, page 137
Deborah E. Lipstadt
#36. La socie te ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.
Sydney Samuelson
#37. The meetings and marches and vigils are cool, but if the enemy isn't present, you're just talking slick to a can of oil.
Darnell Lamont Walker
