Quotes About Albert Speer

#1. Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

Albert Speer

#2. In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

Dennis Quaid

#3. But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost ... the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace.

Albert Speer

#5. After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

George Lucas

#6. The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Lev Grossman

#7. Pain is a pleasure in disguise.

Debasish Mridha

#8. For the commission to do a great building, I would have sold my soul like Faust. Now I had found my Mephistopheles. He seemed no less engaging than Goethe's.

Albert Speer

#9. Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

Albert Speer

#10. Fate is a hunter. Engines

Ruta Sepetys

#11. No doubt concentration camps were a means, a menace used to keep order.

Albert Speer

#12. I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

Albert Speer

#13. Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

Albert Speer

#14. Nature indeed plants the seeds of religion--fear and ignorance; kingcraft and priestcraft water and tend it.

W.G. Pogson Smith

#15. Humankind's compulsion has always been to master the meaning of their world. Through the ages humans have time and again tried to proclaim the nature of existence. Yet the sun has continued to shine on an enigmatic world, with the most imponderable aspect of that world being humans themselves.

Stephen R. Harrison

#16. At headquarters, where everyone lived under the tremendous pressure of responsibility, probably nothing was more welcome than a dictate from above. That meant being freed of a decision and simultaneously being provided with an excuse for failure.

Albert Speer

#17. I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.

Mirah

#18. I was not a member of the SS.

Albert Speer

#19. Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no matter how inherently contradictory they may be and these inspirations were governed by extreme contempt and underestimation of the others.

Albert Speer

#20. Mount Kilauea spilled glowing lava like cords of orange neon-lighting from seemingly nowhere. In the blackness that engulfed the night, electric heat lit flowing streams that fell into the sea, disappearing in a cloud of steam with a sizzling splash.

Victoria Kahler

#21. One seldom recognizes the devil when he is putting his hand on your shoulder.

Albert Speer

#22. In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

Albert Speer

#23. Facebook's own security department has shockingly acknowledged that over 600,000 accounts are compromised every day.

Marc Goodman

#24. If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

Jane Goodall

#25. He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were primitive, Hitler said with a shrug; their physiques were stronger than those of civilized whites and hence should be excluded from future games.

Albert Speer