Adolf Hitler Quotes

Nations make wars; states make wars; and cultures make wars. We tend to conflate the three, but they are very different wars.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

Let us first render ourselves popular by mighty deeds, and afterwards we will speak of peace and clemency. In the disputes of others let us always put ourselves on the side of the stronger. If we would become rich in men and cattle, we cannot help making enemies; but they will not roar for ever.

Only destruction of the enemy can be called victory.

After all, it is not nice going to war with one’s equal or possible superior in strength – so different from those delightful “military operations” which consist in “potting”, savages with an amount of danger just sufficient to give a zest to the sport …But then the special line the skill of our ablest and most valiant generals takes is that of “thrashing a cannibal.” Thrashing a Cossack is a different sort of thing.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

In order to function, the United States needs an enemy.

When the state does go to war ... so too should the nation.

Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be.

They make a desert and call it peace.

For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.

We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.

The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong to fall into such a mood, for Wars are always lost, and War always goes on; and it is no good growing faint.

War is the usual condition of Europe.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.