10 quotes
Justice alone knows liberty, equality, and fraternity, and justice is a human virtue arising from man's human capacity to reason.
I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)
Men who did not know that they were slaves do not know that they have been freed.
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
The masses of the people could not be held back from Nazism, so powerful was its appeal, and this same priest, who would not leave his people, went with them to Nazism, too.
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
Socialism may be all right when men are fit to be socialists.
I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)
National Socialism did not make men unfree; unfreedom made men National Socialists.
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
The love of material goods above all others is as animal as of love of war. The love of justice above material goods must save us in the end it saved we may be.
I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)
When we have produced men of reason, we shall have a world of reason, and the Hitlers will disappear. As long as we produce men of force we shall have a world of force, and the Hitlers, whoever wins the wars, will carry the day.
I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)
It is a sensible military tactic to recognize the enemy before you shoot. The common enemy is the animality in man, and not the men here and there who are behaving like animals at the moment.
I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)
Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was important and he was a member of the tribe.
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
I have no more faith in poor men's animalism than in rich men's. And I want no proletarian revolution until the proletariat has demonstrated devotion to reason which the rich, with larger opportunities to cultivate that virtue, have so universally failed to achieve.
I Think I'll Sit This One Out (1939)