“They died out there, in countless numbers, not for government officials in Berlin, but for their old countries, gilded by the centuries, and for their common fatherland, Europe, the Europe of Virgil and Ronsard, the Europe of Erasmus and Nietzsche, of Raphael and Dürer, the Europe of St. Ignatius and St. Theresa, the Europe of Frederick the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte.”
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
“The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.”
― The Decline of the West
― The Decline of the West
“Britain and France had made it a world war after Hitler invaded Poland. When Stalin did the same thing fifteen days later, no one in the Allied chancelleries took the risk of reacting.”
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
― The Eastern Front: Memoirs of a Waffen SS Volunteer, 1941–1945
“Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.”
― Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección
― Escolios a una texto implícito: Selección
“Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from
indifference toward the unique values which created it.”
― Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa
indifference toward the unique values which created it.”
― Escolios a Un Texto Implicito: Obra Completa
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