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Nothing is more mistaken than to talk of a ‘totalitarian State’ or a “classless” society within the realm of a nihilist revolution.
The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)
Man is becoming God—that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making.
The Voice of Destruction (1940)
Science is a social phenomenon, and like every other social phenomenon is limited by the benefit of injury it confers on the community.
The Voice of Destruction (1940)
The radical dynamism into which National Socialism has developed is a dangerous, destructive fever, which spreads at an uncanny rate.
The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)
At its climaxes this Nazi revolution was always half a Wagner opera. The other half was cunning conspiracy.
Men in Chaos (1942)
Those who see in National Socialism nothing more than a political movement know scarcely anything of it. It is more even than a religion: it is the will to create mankind anew.
The Voice of Destruction (1940)
Nobody took it [Mein Kampf] seriously, nobody could, for nobody could make head or tail out of it.
The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)
Goebbels belongs to a widespread type of revolutionary; he is the intellectual revolutionary, mentally alert, inventive in destructive ideas, and a master of inflammatory speech.
Men in Chaos (1942)
The nihilist foreign policy of the National Socialism of today uses ideas as a mask, and has no philosophical basis.
The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)
The idea of free and unfettered science, unfettered by hypotheses, could only occur in the age of Liberalism. It is absurd.
The Voice of Destruction (1940)
Nothing was more remote from the future of the Reich in 1932-33 than a Bolshevik revolution or even a political revolt from the Left.
The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)
We see then that National Socialism, like the Marxist Socialist parties, has a sort of religious element that demands the sacrifice of the intellect and of individual opinions.
Men in Chaos (1942)
It is against their own insoluble problem of being human that the dull and base in humanity are in revolt in anti-Semitism. Judaism, nevertheless, together with Hellenism and Christianity is an inalienable component of our Christian Western civilization, the eternal " call to Sinai" against which humanity again and again rebels.
The Beast From the Abyss (1941)
Himmler is the practical, working revolutionary. Instead of speaking, he organizes revolutionary cadres, forms terrorist groups, uses for political purposes the methods of the world of international crime extortion, maltreatment, theft, murder.
Men in Chaos (1942)
In my youth, and even in the first years of my Munich period after the war, I never shunned the company of Marxists of any shade. I was of the opinion that one or other of them showed promise.
The Voice of Destruction (1940)
And above all, we shall then maintain our passionate desire to revolutionize the world to an extent unparalleled in history… Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings.
The Voice of Destruction (1940)
I promise you that if I wished to, I could destroy the Church in a few years; it is hollow and rotten and false through and through. One push and the whole structure would collapse. We should trap the priests by their notorious greed and self-indulgence.
The Voice of Destruction (1940)
When the enemy is demoralized from within… A single blow must destroy him. Aerial attacks, stupendous in their mass effect, surprise, terror, sabotage, assassinations from within, the murder of leading men… that is the war of the future.
The Voice of Destruction (1940)
It took three attempts in Germany to enable a coup d'état of nationalist forces to achieve such success that it could be given the character of an irresistible mass movement, a national revolution. All three attempts used the same tactics of ‘grafting revolutionary violence on constitutional legality.’
The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939)
My Socialism is not the same thing as Marxism. My socialism is not class warfare, but order. Whoever images Socialism as a revolt and mass demagogy is not a National Socialist. Revolution is not a game for the masses. Revolution is hard work.
The Voice of Destruction (1940)