Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?
What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?
Naturally, the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. . . tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he [Hitler] was sent to us by God to save Germany.
Hitler used to come to my house once in a while for a cup of coffee, and because I led a normal life, he would leave at about 9 p. m. . . . However, Hitler used to spend practically all of his nights, sometimes until four a. m. , with Goebbels. . . . God knows what evil influence Goebbels had on him during those long visits.
I have tried. . . believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.
I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.
The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.
I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.