Adolf Hitler Quotes

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or upbringing toward religious pursuits. Faith is the very antithesis of reason, injudiciousness a crucial component of spiritual devotion. And when religious fanaticism supplants ratiocination, all bets are suddenly off.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.

Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.

It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who have hijacked Islam for their own purposes. It's important not to fall into that trap and to try to respond with a metaphysical retaliation of some sort.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

We've had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants. The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don't think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

It's my duty to fight those who have chosen to belong to the party of death, those who say they receive their orders from God somewhere and believe they have a duty to set the world on fire to achieve their own salvation.

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.