Werner Heisenberg

“Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves”. –Werner Heisenberg

Ferdinand Lassalle

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

Otto Hahn

“First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our poisonous gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them”. –Otto Hahn

Immanuel Kant

“Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee”. –Immanuel Kant

Gregor Strasser

“We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism, and from the left socialism without internationalism”. –Gregor Strasser

Friedrich Klopstock

“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave”. –Friedrich Klopstock

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Konrad Zuse

“The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers”. –Konrad Zuse

Friedrich von Hayek

“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking liberalism”. –Friedrich von Hayek

Martin Niemöller

“We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced — and remain convinced now — that, after Hitler, Truman was the greatest murderer in the world”. –Martin Niemöller

Novalis

“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream”. –Novalis

Sepp Dietrich

“Politics is a whore. It’s too high for me… The only interest in politics is to get to know how to lead a life under the most favorable circumstances”. –Sepp Dietrich

Karl Dönitz

“Rescue runs counter to the most primitive demands of warfare… Be hard, remember that the enemy has no regard for women and children when he bombs German cities”. –Karl Dönitz

Bertolt Brecht

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are”. –Bertolt Brecht

Theodor Adorno

“The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit”. –Theodor Adorno

Anne Frank

“There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again”. –Anne Frank

Peter Drucker

“The best way to predict the future is to create it”. –Peter Drucker

Adolf Hitler

“The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its doctrine”. –Adolf Hitler

Albrecht Dürer

“But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error”. –Albrecht Dürer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings”. –Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Karl von Clausewitz

“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles”. –Karl von Clausewitz

Polykarp Kusch

“Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs the world”. –Polykarp Kusch

Simon Wiesenthal

“There is no freedom without justice”. –Simon Wiesenthal

Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world”. –Albert Einstein

Erich Ludendorff

“By appointing Hitler Chancellor of the Reich, you have handed over our sacred German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I prophesy to you this evil man will plunge our Reich into the abyss and will inflict immeasurable woe on our nation. Future generations will curse you in your grave for this action”. –Erich Ludendorff

Wilhelm von Humboldt

“The government is best which makes itself unnecessary”. –Wilhelm von Humboldt

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see”. –Arthur Schopenhauer

Bruno Walter

“Napoleon is dead — but Beethoven lives”. –Bruno Walter

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think”. –Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Friedrich Engels

“Everything must justify its existence before the judgement of Reason, or give up existence”. –Friedrich Engels

Walter Kaufmann

“The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains”. –Walter Kaufmann

Wernher von Braun

“Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently”. –Wernher von Braun

Klaus Kinski

“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real”. –Klaus Kinski

Hermann Göring

“We will go down in history either as the world’s greatest statesmen or its worst villains”. –Hermann Göring

Meister Eckhart

“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake”. –Meister Eckhart

Nicolaus Copernicus

“For I am not so enamored of my own opinions that I disregard what others may think of them”. –Nicolaus Copernicus

Albert Schweitzer

“The African is my brother — but he is my younger brother by several centuries”. –Albert Schweitzer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves”. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Paul Tillich

“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being”. –Paul Tillich

Lord Mountbatten

“My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don’t see why my children shouldn’t be afraid of me”. –Lord Mountbatten

Karl Marx

“Democracy is the road to socialism”. –Karl Marx

Joseph Goebbels

“Our starting point is not the individual. We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or cloth the naked. Our objectives are different; we must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world”. –Joseph Goebbels

Max Planck

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it”. –Max Planck

Ivan Illich

“The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately, this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts”. –Ivan Illich

Heinz Guderian

“There are no desperate situations, only desperate people”. –Heinz Guderian

Richard Wagner

“I hate this fast-growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories, and deprive them of all joy in their efforts. The plan will lead to cheap men, and cheap products”. –Richard Wagner

Hans Bender

“Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth”. –Hans Bender

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The ultimate test of a moral society is in the kind of world it leaves to its children”. –Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Kaiser Wilhelm II

“Give me a woman who really loves beer and I will conquer the world”. –Kaiser Wilhelm II

Friedrich Nietzsche

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly”. –Friedrich Nietzsche

Sigmund Freud

“Everywhere that I go I find out that a poet has been there before me”. –Sigmund Freud

Charles Bukowski

“It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well”. –Charles Bukowski

Heinrich Himmler

“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us, but we don’t ask for their love, only for their fear”. –Heinrich Himmler

Otto von Bismarck

“Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made”. –Otto von Bismarck