Hitler provides a paradigm of deadly bullshit.
“It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.”
“I don't see much future for the Americans... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?”
“Thus it must be admitted that in the economic sphere, from the start, in all branches men are not of equal value or of equal importance. And once this is admitted it is madness to say: in the economic sphere there are undoubtedly differences in value, but that is not true in the political sphere. It is absurd to build up economic life on the conceptions of achievement, of the value of personality, and therefore in practice the authority of personality, but in the political sphere to deny the authority of personality and to thrust into this place the law of the greater number — democracy.”
“There is no better guarantee for the peace of the world than the fanatical unity of the German people.”
“I am not crazy enough to want a war.”
“We want to be a peace-loving element among the nations. We cannot repeat that often enough.”
“But we never want a lack of belief in religion or any faith...”
“The lie goes forth again that Germany to-morrow or the other day will fall upon Austria or Czecho-Slovakia.”
“We have assured all our immediate neighbours of the integrity of their territory as far as Germany is concerned. That is no hollow phrase: it is our sacred will.”
“The motto must be, 'Never war again.'”
“No other people can need peace more than we.”
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
“As a Christian...I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.”
“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.”
“The National Socialist racial idea and the science underlying it do not lead to the underrating or disparagement of other nations but rather to the recognition of the duty to preserve and maintain the life of our own people. Hence it leads inevitably to a natural respect for the life and character of other peoples.”
“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”
“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith...We need believing people...Believing soldiers are the most valuable ones. They give their all.” [Statement April 26, 1933 during negotiations leading to the Nazi-Vatican Concordant of 1933; from Ernst Helmreich, The German Churches Under Hitler. Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1979, p. 241 ISBN: 9780814316030]
“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
“Only when the entire German people become a single community of sacrifice can we expect and hope that Almighty God will help us.”
“Additionally, on special petition men should be able to enter into a binding martial relationship not only with one woman, but also with another...”
“As a peace-loving man, I have made every effort to give the German nation the defence and the weapons which are appropriate to persuade others also for peace.”
“I intend to set up a thousand-year Reich and anyone who supports me in this battle is a fellow-fighter for a unique spiritual—I would say divine—creation...”
“National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.”
“I am for force, because in force I see strength, and in strength the eternal mother of rights, and in rights the root of life itself.”
“I want war...I am the one who will wage the war!
“Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.”
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
Christopher Hitchens:
“[A]ll the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime. Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms – the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome – if it’s an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that he’s doing God’s work and executing God’s will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, “I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? It’s exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system?”
Christopher Hitchens