Strasser Quotes & Sayings

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people. — Gregor Strasser

This crude, cowardly bargain seems not to have unduly bothered Hitler. If Mussolini was personally attracted to him, as Ciano said, by "something deeply rooted in his make-up," it might be said that the attraction was mutual, for the same mysterious reasons. Disloyal as he had been to some of his closest associates, a number of whom he had had murdered, such as Roehm and Strasser, Hitler maintained a strange and unusual loyalty to his ridiculous Italian partner that did not weaken, that indeed was strengthened when adversity and then disaster overtook the strutting, sawdust Roman Caesar. It is one of the interesting paradoxes of this narrative. — William L. Shirer

What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts. — Todd Strasser

The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of money he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just economic system, in a word by German Socialism. — Gregor Strasser

If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight. — Todd Strasser

cant get there from here — Todd Strasser

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real. — Todd Strasser

Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved. — Todd Strasser

I'd learned a little about nuclear war from duck-and-cover air-raid drills at school, but most of what I knew about the Russians came from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show on TV. — Todd Strasser

Deadlines are like a drug for me. I hate and need them. — Todd Strasser

Was it the weakness of a man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings? — Todd Strasser

Every people should persue happiness in their own way. — Gregor Strasser

Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918. — Humphrey Bogart

But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it? — Todd Strasser

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. — Gregor Strasser

It's weird when you wake of from a bad dream and everything is still bad. — Todd Strasser

There's more to life then living, so hold on. — Todd Strasser

Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth. — Todd Strasser

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work. — Gregor Strasser

It condemned The Wave as a dangerous and mindless movement that suppressed freedom of speech and thought and ran against everything the country was founded on. — Todd Strasser

It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding it. — Todd Strasser

Of course it would be great to sell lots and lots of copies of The Beast of Cretacea. But the bottom line for me is to sell enough copies to convince my publisher to let me do a sequel. I spent three years creating the world of Cretacea and the personalities of all the characters who inhabit it. All I want to do now is go back. — Todd Strasser

Strasser hoped to replace the Programme of 1920. In November, he took the first steps in composing the Community's own draft programme. It advocated a racially integrated German nation at the heart of a central European customs union, the basis of a united states of Europe. — Ian Kershaw

We National Socialists are enemies, deadly enemies, of the present capitalist system with its exploitation of the economically weak ... and we are resolved under all circumstances to destroy this system. — Gregor Strasser

Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance. — Todd Strasser

Why do we believe one stranger and not another? — Todd Strasser