"Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share."

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Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, ed. by Robert Gellately, 2004.

Wilhelm Keitel

#Suicide Quotes #Order Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“For when a ship is floating calmly along, the sailors see its motion mirrored in everything outside, while on the other hand they suppose that they are stationary, together with everything on board. In the same way, the motion of the earth can unquestionably produce the impression that the entire universe is rotating.”
“The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.”
“Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the horses as they cleared their throats, the gentle swish of their tails, the tinkle of irons as we flung the saddles over their backs-little sounds of no importance, but they stay in the unconscious library of memory.”

Source : Wynford Vaughan-Thomas (1967). “Madly in all directions”
“If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.”
“The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file.”
“RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain they have never dreamed of. The context of what can be known establishes that love and indifference are forms of language, but the wise addition of punctuation allows us to believe that there are other harms - the dash gives the reader the clear signal they are coming.”

Source : Ben Marcus (2013). “The Age of Wire and String”, p.92, Granta Books
“What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.”
“If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.”

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