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Russia [...] will awaken in the spirit of its greatest thinker, in the spirit of Dostoevsky.
The social is a stopgap. Socialism is the ideology of the future.
The Jew is contrary to our being. … He desecrated our people, spat on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Want work and bread for every productive national and blood comrade. Pay should be according to accomplishment. That means more pay for German workers!
Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Communism. Jewry. I am a German Communist.
Work is not mankind’s curse, but his blessing. A man becomes a man through labor. It elevates him, makes him great and aware, raises him above all other creatures.
Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation ruled by an incomprehensible providence.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Communism is nothing but a grotesque distortion of true Socialist thought. We and we alone could become the genuine Socialists in Germany, or for that matter, in Europe.
Now I have found the word: we modern Germans are something like Christ-socialists. Christ is the genius of love, and as such the diametrical opposite of Judaism, which is the incarnation of hate.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
On to Chemnitz. Speech to two thousand communists. Meeting quiet and factual. At the end devastating free-for-all fight. A thousand beer glasses smashed. Hundred and fifty wounded, thirty seriously, two dead.
Production that is essentially completed, which no longer requires strength, ability, inventiveness, entrepreneurship and brilliance (e.g., the transportation system, trusts, conglomerates) will be brought back to state ownership.
Germany in any case has no intention of bowing to this threat, but means to counter it in time and if necessary with the most complete and radical extermi—[correcting himself]—elimination [Ausrott — Ausschaltung]. [Applause. Shouts of "Out with the Jews." Laughter].
Sportsplast speech “slip of the tongue (1943)
Consistent with his spiritual attitude, the National Socialist makes uncompromising demands in politics.
Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
The war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx.
Christ: the principle of love.
Marx: the principle of hate.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
1923. You challenged your fate. To surmount or to die! It was not yet time. Therefore you became a victim.
Your answer was: Death!
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Great hour! Spent together, rejoicing and dreaming. Days and years are gathering. We are a still island in the ocean of the world. Beginning and end! Border between life and eternity! Euphoria, fulfillment, existence!
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
We are for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party!
Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)
The Fuhrer is deeply religious, though completely anti-Christian. He views Christianity as a symptom of decay. Rightly so. It is a branch of the Jewish race.
Because we are socialists we have felt the deepest blessings of the nation, and because we are nationalists we want to promote socialist justice in a new Germany.
Die verfluchten Hakenkreuzler. Etwas zum Nachdenken (1932)