Alfred Rosenberg > Quotes

“A determined will, grounded on a clear order of rank of values, coupled with organic strength of outlook, will also one day - despite all hindrances - enforce its realisation in all domains.”
― Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century

“To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do. ”
― Alfred Rosenberg

“The greatest and most blessed thing in the Germanic life is the mythical, sensitive, yet strong, awakening. The fact is that we have again begun to dream our own primal dreams.”
― Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century

“The forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone and drifting sand. Men perished and moved on, the cities sank back into the sand, the dust settled over them. Thousands of years later Nordic dreamers dug up the petrified culture from the rubble and ashes. Today, the entire picture of the former paradise stands before our eyes as a spent dream which had once produced life, beauty and strength as long as a superior race ruled. It will live again and it will dream again. But as soon as races of a dreamless kind took over and attempted to realize the dream, reality vanished with the dream.”
― Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century

“Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and destroying the threads which bind humanity to Nature; they attract adventurers and profiteers of all colours, thereby fostering racial chaos.”
― Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century

“A nation without a myth drifts aimlessly throughout history. Myth gives purpose and meaning to the civilisation. Myth makes a people a nation, a nation a race, and a race a contributor to the world. Myth shapes the race so that the race may fulfil the potential of its individual. The myth makes us conscious that we are a race, and not merely an arbitrary, purposeless, ill-defined conglomerate of men and women.”
― Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century

“Thou shalt love God in all things, animals and plants.”
― Alfred Rosenberg

“Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of the blood, that faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.”
― Alfred Rosenberg

“We waged a frontal battle against liberalism, Marxism, Judaism and Freemasonry. In the midst of this decisive struggle against an apparently secure democratic order celebrated as the only progressive democratic order, we have never forgotten that even in this liberal time individual creative personalities, great generals and statesmen, researchers and detectors were at work. We have never forgotten that the European peoples could not begin their history with the year 1789 and its effects, but that the roots of their forces sank far into distant centuries, and ultimately into distant millennia. And in the face of the outrage called the "Great French Revolution", we made a distinction between the fact of the uprising and the intellectual and moral slogans that were partial causes or accompanying phenomena in the course of this uprising. We National Socialists defend ourselves from the outset against the misunderstanding that in the midst of the overturning of the world of thought at the turn of the 19th century we were aiming for a change in the conditions of life and forms of government of the 18th century or even the restoration of much older phenomena in political life.”
― Alfred Rosenberg

“We know very well that at the end of the eighteenth century the French people had no choice but to either rot or try again in an
outrage to save them. The fact that France carried out this survey was undoubtedly still a sign of unbroken vitality, but the slogans that this great wave carried with it, close to our deep conviction, did not serve the strong and good vital forces, but led people to fantastic, far from life ones Ideas to overestimate intellectual constructions, to detach individuals from the given old topsoil and finally due to this alienation of life to the abandonment of the blood, first to a Palestinian parasite people and finally to the introduction of the negro blood, alien and hostile to all Europeans.”
― Alfred Rosenberg