Ernst Hanfstaengl Quotes

#1. Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#2. The Jews who already have been ousted were put out because they were morally and politically unfit to safeguard German interests.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#3. In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#4. I never read comic books as a kid.

Al Jourgensen

#5. Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. [Later], under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model ... Frederick the Great was a man who knew when to stop [and] Napoleon did not.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#6. If we take into account the existence of our planet, we have to recognise that we are guests that spend a short and very determined period in this world, and all we leave behind is nuclear waste.

Gunter Grass

#7. If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#8. Wars break things; they break stories.

Anthony Marra

#9. I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

Imelda Staunton

#10. Fire consumes, but cold preserves.

George R R Martin

#11. Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#12. Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers ... but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information ... He was passionately interested in the Ku Klux Klan ... He seemed to think it was a political movement similar to his own.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#13. The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

John Ortberg

#14. A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.

Anthony Trollope

#15. Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#16. Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#17. With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#18. It is probably not true to say that there was a physical homosexual relationship between [Rudolf Hess and Hitler] but the attraction was there.

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#19. I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

Fatou Bensouda