No matter what Hitler said, he spoke with a fine feeling for the particular circle which he addressed. ... He was a great psychologist.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

If I had known it I would have told my son, I'd rather shoot you than let you join the SS. But I didn't know.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.

I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons - all for Germany.

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.

James Smith argues that liturgies “are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.

There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

Time rolls his ceaseless course.