Martin Niemoller
Martin Niemoller
Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöllerwas a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known for his statement, "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist ...... and there was no one left to speak for me."...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth14 January 1892
CountryGermany
Martin Niemoller quotes about
weapons world truman
We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced and remain convinced now that, after Hitler , Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.
church politician truth-and-falsehood
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician not even a church politician.
strong men listening
One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.
freedom silent nazi
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.
people waiting catchy
Don't let your life wait for other people.
father heart eye
More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."
men cases
For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
speaks-out talking holocaust
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist.
brother war believe
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked up out of the water are soldiers bound for the front; soldiers who are to shoot at our German brothers... The question whether we are to perish in despair or defiance, or survive all trails with a live conscience, depends wholly and solely on whether we believe in the forgiveness of sins. This 25th January was the turning point in my life, because it opened my eyes to the utter impossibility of a moral universe.
stupid intuition catchy
If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.
strength men thinking
A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.
christian believe home
I have never concealed the fact and said it before the court in 1938 that I came from an anti-Semitic past and tradition... I ask only that you look at my life historically and take it as history. I believe that from 1933 I truly represented the Lutheran-Christian outlook on the Jewish question as I revealed before the court but that I returned home after eight years' imprisonment as a completely different person.