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“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.”
― Mark Twain

“Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.”
― Mark Twain

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.”
― Mark Twain

“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.”
― Mark Twain

“I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.”
― Mark Twain

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.”
― Mark Twain

“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”
― Mark Twain

“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”
― Mark Twain

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
― Mark Twain

“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”
― Mark Twain

“great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
― Mark Twain

“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”
― Mark Twain

“There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.”
― Mark Twain

“There is nothing so annoying as having two people talking when you're busy interrupting.”
― Mark Twain

“I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.”
― Mark Twain

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
― Mark Twain

“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.”
― Mark Twain

“If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”
― Mark Twain

“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
― Mark Twain, What is Man?

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Walter Langer

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
― Adolf Hitler

“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
― Adolf Hitler

“Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it. During the War the heaviest of penalties had to be paid for that ignorance.

-- Mein Kampf, Chapter 10”
― Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
― Adolf Hitler

“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
― Adolf Hitler

“And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”
― Adolf Hitler

“The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all.”
― Adolf Hitler