Hanfstaengl Quotes & Sayings

I can't get involved in all the murders you need to commit to get this shit out of your system. — Dylan Moran

I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy. — Johnny Knoxville

You can't hurt a man with a pinprick when he's already got a spear in his chest. — Anonymous

Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives. — Ernst Hanfstaengl

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

Or else rip out the odd pages and leave me the even. — David Mitchell

Most of the people near Hitler were mental breast-stroke swimmers. — Ernst Hanfstaengl

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

If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it. — Ernst Hanfstaengl

We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off. — Erik Larson

When I was in high school I wanted to be in the most underground band ever so we didn't have a name, songs, no one could play or sing anything and I didn't tell the other members they were in the band. — Christy Leigh Stewart

The truth costs.
Lies cost more. — Jennifer Donnelly

Anti-Semitism is not based on strictly religious grounds and is not directed against the Jewish faith as such. However, all German Christians resent and denounce the fact that the Jews have been the chief advocates of atheism. They have influenced the workers' children through the Communist youth organizations, of which they are the leading spirit ... — Ernst Hanfstaengl

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class. — Christopher Hitchens

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

With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic. — Ernst Hanfstaengl

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently. — William Shakespeare

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

Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche. — Ernst Hanfstaengl

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. — James Martineau

Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124). — Edith Schaeffer

Beautiful things never last. That's why fireflies flash. — Ron Pope