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Sebastian Haffner

"One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later."

Source : Sebastian Haffner (2012). “Defying Hitler: A Memoir”, p.14, Hachette UK

Sebastian Haffner

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“I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not. So I think it has more to do with that, a person's individual will to be master or servant. I've been both in my own life and I prefer the former.”
“Loving fathers give their children guidance on how to deal with all the hard things in life.”
“Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.”
“Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.”
“I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.”

Source : Song: Life's Been Good, Album: But Seriously, Folks...
“Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.”
“There is nothing on earth that you can not have once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.”
“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.”

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