Victor Klemperer Quotes & Sayings

I am not a dictator, I have only simplified democracy. — Victor Klemperer

They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [ ... ] they will have to undertake something. — Victor Klemperer

We hear a lot about Palestine now; it does not appeal to us. Anyone who goes there exchanges nationalism and narrowness for nationalism and narrowness. — Victor Klemperer

Socialism has now become completely or almost completely identical with Bolshevism; that — Victor Klemperer

Newspapers are read differently now [ ... ] Between the lines. — Victor Klemperer

Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop. — Victor Klemperer

I only have the quite childish horror of the grave and of nothingness — Victor Klemperer

National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism. — Victor Klemperer

In the war I was subject to military law, but subject to law nevertheless; now I am at the mercy of an arbitrary power. — Victor Klemperer

To me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus) are just as offensive as the Nazis. With their nosing after blood, their ancient "cultural roots," their partly canting, partly obtuse winding back of the world they are altogether a match for the National Socialists. That is the fantastic thing about the National Socialists, that they simultaneously share in a community of ideas with Soviet Russia and with Zion. — Victor Klemperer

Does one unceasingly talk about a thousand years and enemies destroyed, if one is certain of these thousand years and this annihilation? — Victor Klemperer