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

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

“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

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

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

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

“A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future”. –Vidkun Quisling

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world”. –Dwight D. Eisenhower

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