Fritzsche Quotes

#1. The 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.

Hans Fritzsche

#2. Fritzsche, radio propaganda chief, by manipulation of the truth goaded German public opinion into frenzied support of the regime and anesthetized the independent judgment of the population so that they did without question their masters' bidding.

Hans Fritzsche

#3. I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.

Hans Fritzsche

#4. The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

Pankaj Mishra

#5. We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

#6. The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, which is in the hands of the wealthy capitalists.

Hans Fritzsche

#7. I, for one, love kids in my romance novels. When done right, kids add so much conflict. Not just of the 'interruption on the way to the bedroom' variety. But conflict about commitment and insecurity.

Molly O'Keefe

#8. The rebel in him flared to life like an old, familiar friend.

J.M. Stewart

#9. Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

Eric Weiner

#10. The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Nalo Hopkinson

#11. We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry the hatred about the murder of 5 million people on to another World War.

Hans Fritzsche

#12. But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

Jon Krakauer