"Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to FÃ¼hrer of a people of almost 80 million. ... His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man."

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Source : "The Eichmann Memoir" by James Noxon, The Personalist, Cover image Volume 42, Issue 3, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. July 1961.

Adolf Eichmann

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“We proclaim the resurrection of Christ when his light illuminates the dark moments of our existence, and we are able share it with others”
“Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.”
“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.”
“I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing”

Source : "Minds, Brains and Programs". Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 1980.
“I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.”

Source : "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.
“I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”

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