Robert Ley Quotes

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

Where one would least expect to find Nazi propaganda at work--in the Church-- I found it organized as effectively as outside the church

Faith in the Fuhrer is enveloped, it could almost be said, in a mysterious, unfathomable mysticism.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

I should be pleased, I suppose, that Hitler has carried out a revolution on our lines. But they are Germans. So they will end by ruining our idea.

He who serves our Führer, Adolf Hitler, serves Germany, and he who serves Germany, serves God.

Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status.

Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

In Hitler the rare union has taken place between the most acute logical thinker and truly profound philosopher, and the iron man of action...I follow no leadership but that of Adolf Hitler and of God.

I think enormous harm is done by religion - not just in the name of religion, but actually by religion. ... Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have done, but really because they believe that this is what God wants them to do, going all the way back to Abraham being willing to sacrifice Isaac because God told him to do that. Putting God ahead of humanity is a terrible thing.

National Socialism does not harbor the slightest aggressive intent toward any European nation.

There is no independence of law against National Socialism. Say to yourselves at every decision which you make: "How would the Fuhrer decide in my place?

The National Socialist Revolution is not simply the taking of power in the state by one party from another, but brings a complete revolution of our German existence. Henceforth every matter demands decision, and every act demands responsibility.

The student body of the University of Freiburg announces that it is determined to carry the fight against Jewish-Marxist undermining of Germany to the bitter end, to the complete annihilation of the foe. The public burnings of Jewish-Marxist writings on May 10, 1933, served as a symbol of this fight. Germans, rally to this fight! Make your participation public! From the publishers and bookstores send us all books and writings that deserve burning. Let each one bring what he finds, or tell us about it so that we may go get it. The fire of destruction is to us like a blazing up of the German spirit and German custom and practice.

Doctrines and "ideas" shall no longer govern your existence. The Fuhrer himself, and only he, is the current and future reality of Germany, and his word is your law.

Hitler and his clique conquered Germany by brutal violence, by murder and crime. But the doctrines of Nazism had got hold of the German mind long before then. Persuasion, not violence, had converted the immense majority of the nation to the tenets of militant nationalism. If Hitler had not succeeded in winning the race for dictatorship, somebody else would have won it.

The Baath Party was a Fascist Party. It was an Arab Fascist Party—one of many Arab Fascist Parties. There were of course Nazi style parties throughout the Middle East following Nazi allied policies and the Baath carried the flame.

Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Everything German that stands for disorder and destruction is gathered together in the Bavarian capital. All that is reactionary is concentrated there.

Politically, I hated Germany from my youth.

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that's all.