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"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

"So much of life seems to come down to sitting in rows while another human being tells us something".

"One quickly realises that when it comes to deciding who is liable for a plane crash--the dead pilots on the one hand, or the aircraft with its reputation and that of its country of origin to think of...the pilot's honour is not worth much".

"'Our philosophy is a matter of the heart. Feeling is more to us than reason.' This simple Hitler Youth principle helps to explain the power of the Nazi movement"

"The Germans' incomprehensibly long resistance [to defeat in World War II] was not only a resort of the regime's coercive terror and propaganda. They were also driven by a fear of the void and by the loss of a sense of purpose in life. They wanted to postpone the inevitable."