Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adlai E. Stevenson

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai E. Stevenson

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

Adlai E. Stevenson

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.

Adlai E. Stevenson

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

Adolf Hitler

Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by.

Adolf Hitler

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

Adolf Hitler

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

Adolf Hitler

Marching diverts man's thoughts. Marching kills thoughts. Marching makes an end of individuality. Marching is the indispensable magic stroke performed in order to accustom people to a mechanical, quasi-ritualistic activity until it becomes second nature.

Adolf Hitler

Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little schoolgirl. What culture is there in an old jug, I ask you?

Adolf Hitler

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

Adolf Hitler

There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.

Adolf Hitler

It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.

Adolf Hitler

Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

Adolf Hitler

I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.

Adolf Hitler

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

Adolf Hitler

We need free men who feel and know that God is in themselves

Adolf Hitler

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

Adolf Hitler

What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.

Adolf Hitler

Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).

Adolf Hitler

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

Adolf Hitler

The earth continues to go round, whether it's the man who kills the tiger or the tiger who eats the man. The stronger asserts his will, it's the law of nature. The world doesn't change; its laws are eternal.

Adolf Hitler

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

Adolf Hitler

As long as leadership from above was not lacking, the people fulfilled their duty and obligation overwhelmingly. Whether Protestant pastor or Catholic priest, both together and particularly at the first flare, there really existed in both camps but a single holy German Reich, for whose existence and future each man turned to his own heaven.

Adolf Hitler

Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.

Adolf Hitler

A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.

Adolf Hitler

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

Adolf Hitler

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

Adelaide Anne Procter

Each man has some part to play.

Adelbert von Chamisso

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?

Adam Sedgwick

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance, indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.