| Author | Message | ||
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. --Karl Barth, The Word of God and the Word of Man [1957] | ||
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but -- more frequently than not -- struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. --Martin Luther, Table Talk [1569], 53 | ||
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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. --T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets. Little Gidding, V | ||
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. --T.S. Eliot, A Dialogue on Dramatic Poetry [1928] | ||
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Jesus saith, Wherever there are two, they are not without God, and wherever there is one alone, I say, I am with him. Raise the stone, and there thou shalt find Me, cleave the wood and there am I. --The Sayings of Jesus: Third Century, Oxyrhynchus Papyri [translated and edited by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur H. Hunt, who also discovered the papyri. The Logia were first published in 1897 as Logia Iesou: Sayings of Our Lord], Part I [1898], no. 1, Logia Iesou, Logion 5. | ||
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Jesus saith, Ye ask who are those that draw us to the kingdom, if the kingdom is in Heaven? ... The fowls of the air, and all beasts that are under the earth or upon the earth, and the fishes of the sea, these are they which draw you, and the kingdom of Heaven is within you. --The Sayings of Jesus: Third Century, Oxyrhynchus Papyri [translated and edited by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur H. Hunt, who also discovered the papyri. The Logia were first published in 1897 as Logia Iesou: Sayings of Our Lord], Part IV [1904], no 654, New Sayings of Jesus, second saying | ||
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All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its SPIRITUAL level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself. --Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (My Struggle) [1933], vol. I, ch. 2. | ||
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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, to underhand, too underground and too petty -- I call it the one immortal blemish of mankind. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [1886-1886], I, 18. Translated by Helen Zimmern. | ||
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What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man? --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Gods 1888]. Things the Germans Lack, 2, I, 18. | ||
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At the core of all these aristocratic races the beast of prey is not to be mistaken, the magnificent BLOND BEAST, avidly rampant for spoil and victory. --Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals [1887] essay 1, aphorism 9 | ||
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Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. --Sylvia Plath, Daddy [1963], stanza 10 | ||
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I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo. And your neat mustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue. Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You -- --Sylvia Plath, Daddy [1963], stanza 9 | ||
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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it has also become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. --Aharon Appelfeld, writing in the New York Times [November 15, 1986] | ||
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. --Abraham Lincoln, Address at Cooper Union, New York [February 27, 1860] | ||
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An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life. --E. B. White, Letter to Reginald Allen | ||
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Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you. --Hermann Goering, Directive (drafted by Adolf Eichmann) to Reinhard Heydrich [July 31, 1941] | ||
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It was as though in those last minutes he [Adolf Eichmann] was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us -- the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying BANALITY OF EVIL. --Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil [1963], ch. 15 | ||
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To sum it all up, I must say I regret nothing. --Adolf Eichmann [1906-1962], while awaiting trial in Israel | ||
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Submit to me as soon as possible a draft showing ... measures already taken for the execution of the intended final solution of the Jewish question. --Hermann Goering, Directed (drafted by Adolf Eichmann) to Reinhard Heydrich [July 31, 1941] | ||
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The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny. --Winston Churchill, Message to the people of Europe on launching the V for Victory campaign [July 20, 1941] |
