Hanfstaengl Quotes

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

Erik Larson

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

Ernst Hanfstaengl

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

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#4. 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

#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. I swear, if I could eat my children, I would. I'd consume them like some beast in a Hieronymus Bosch painting, but in a friendlier, more momlike way. Their little bodies make me salivate. It takes everything I have not to swallow them whole.

Amy Poehler

#7. Because I still love him. You can't just turn love off. You still feel it.

Susane Colasanti

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

Ernst Hanfstaengl

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

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#10. 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

#11. Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Lao-Tzu

#12. 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

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

Ernst Hanfstaengl

#14. 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

#15. Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.

Ron Howard

#16. I've always liked, someday the lamb will lay by the lion ... but it won't get much sleep.

Woody Allen

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

Ernst Hanfstaengl