Rudolf Hess famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

National Socialism would have every German decide for himself on spiritual questions, just as in the days of Frederick the Great.Â The National Socialist state gives to the church what belongs to the church, and to the state what belongs to the state.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Spiritual #Giving #Church
I hope that the outside world will realise that Hitler's government has no idea of steering towards war, even though this has often been asserted abroad.Â As Adolf Hitler himself has said, Germany has no need of another war to avenge the loss of her military honour, because she never lost that honour.Â Germany does not want war of any kind.Â Germany wants real and abiding peace.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Military #Real #War
The dogmatist will listen to everyone's opinion, and then affirm to himself his godliness.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Opinion #Godliness
We all believe we have found the finest of diktat that applies our perfect future, but do we believe the world needs referees.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Peace #Believe #Perfect
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Spring #Hero #Essence
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Mother #Children #Eye
History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Broken #Forever #Together
Hitler is simply pure reason incarnate
-- Rudolf Hess

#Reason
Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said that it was five million Jews. There are certain methods by which any confession can be obtained, whether it is true or not.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Two #Half #Confession
Normally the great men that we admire from a distance lose their magic when one knows them well. With Hitler the opposite is true.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Distance #Men #Opposites
Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Leader #Doe #Persuasion
How often has Hitler said to me: 'I know that my decision or action is correct. I cannot explain at the moment why, but I feel that it is right and the future will prove it so'.
-- Rudolf Hess

#Decision #Action #Moments

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