"... obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken."
"Does anyone believe that the progress of this world springs from the mind of majorities and not from the brains or individuals?"
"... anyone who is unwilling to take personal responsibility for his acts, but seeks a shield, is a cowardly scoundrel."
"Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election."
"The world is not for cowardly peoples."
"Mankind has grown great in eternal struggle, and only in eternal peace does it perish."
"Altogether, care should be taken not to regard the masses as stupider than they are."
"A man who is prepared to stand up for a cause will never and never can be a sneak and a spineless lickspittle."
"... empty hands can judge only by externals and never have the faculty of penetrating the inner core ..."
"... only when the rays of the sun die can the moon shine."
"... the meaning and purpose of revolutions is not to tear down the whole building, but to remove what is bad or unsuitable and continue building on the sound spot that has been laid before."
"In order not to be considered lacking in artistic understanding, people stood for every mockery of art and ended up becoming really uncertain in the judgment of good and bad."
"For in the long run government systems are not maintained by the pressure of violence but by faith in their soundness and in the truthfullness with which they represent and advance the interest of a people."
"Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."
"Everything on this earth is capable of improvement."
"The best weapon is dead, worthless material as long as the spirit is lacking which is ready, willing, and determined to use it."
"... the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward."
"... God does not make cowardly nations free ..."
"Whatever you do, do it completely."
"... he who swims with the stream is more easily overlooked than he who bucks the waves."
"People are not freed by doing nothing, but by sacrifices."
"For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order."
"We are not simple enough, either, to believe that it could ever be possible to bring about a perfect era. But this relieves no one of the obligations to combat recognized errors, to overcome weakness, and strive for the ideal."
"It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor."
"... in life it is sometimes better to let a thing lie for the present than to begin it badly or by halves for want of suitable forces."
"... nothing at all is impossible, everything can be done if you only want it."
"Terror is not broken by the mind, but by terror."
"... a healthy, forceful spirit will be found only in a healthy and forceful body."
"The progress and culture of humanity are not a product of the majority, but rest exclusively on the genius and energy of the personality."
"Care must be taken not to underestimate the force of an idea."
"... a man of little scientific education but physically healthy, with a good, firm character, imbued with the joy of determination and will-power, is more valuable for the national community than a clever weakling."
"We must always bear in mind that even the most beautiful idea of a sublime theory in most cases can be disseminated only through the small and smallest minds. The important thing is not what the genius who has created an idea has in mind, but what, in what form, and with what success the prophets of this idea transmit it to the broad masses."
Even Satan can spin Scripture. Hitler's slippery grasp on reality based phrases seems kinda funny to me.
I guess the one about "not storming into the Russian winter while wearing your Caribbean weather gear" must've breezed right by him.
~grin~
But I get your drift.
"Care must be taken not to underestimate the force of an idea."
I have always despised those office photos with pictures of cliffs, ocean waves, icebergs, etc--and those similar "Slogan Quotes for Motivation. They are akin to these catch-all phrases--even from the likes of Mein Kampf. I think they are part of the breed of claptrap that always appeared cultist and insipid.
This just proves it. Although there was a good "spoof" of this crappy "Motivational Art" going around awhile back.
My favorite was a young man observing an older gentleman and a pretty woman having a drink together. The sign said "O-P-P-O-T-U-N-I-T-Y: Yes, that's you're Boss--and No--that's not his wife."
Well, the sonofab!tch was right about that one.