Sebastian Haffner Quotes

One Cannot Overstate The Childishness Of The Ideas That Feed And Stir The Masses. Real Ideas Must As A Rule Be Simplified To The Level Of A Child's Understanding If They Are To Arouse The Masses To Historic Actions. A Childish Illusion, Fixed In The Minds Of All Children Born In A Certain Decade And Hammered Home For Four Years, Can Easily Reappear As A Deadly Serious Political Ideology Twenty Years Later.

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