Adolf Hitler vs. Mark Twain
Read 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Mark Twain. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Mark Twain. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: love, history, life, time, human nature. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Adolf Hitler, entry #1250: "And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #144: "Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"
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Adolf Hitler
1889 – 1945
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era, which lasted from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War.
"And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."
#love"Triumph of the Will on facinghistory.org"
#history"I am for force, because in force I see strength, and in strength the eternal mother of rights, and in rights the root of life itself."
#life"God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves."
#religion"The Jews have shown real genius in profiting by politics. This capitalistic people, which was brought into existence by the unscrupulous exploitation of men,…"
#leadership"There are more than ten million Germans in two states, and in the Great War they fought side by side with German soldiers. Against their will they have been …"
#freedom"John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, Viking, 1999."
#history"Germany has no claims to make against the European nations except to live exactly like the others. ... What we have in mind is a legal order of European nati…"
#justice"Then the spirits of our fallen comrades shall rise from their graves to thank all those whose courage and loyalty have now once more atoned for the sins comm…"
#time"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the fir…"
#leadership"England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years... Such is the fate of rich countries... Not even England has the mon…"
#time"Because of the lack of productive capacities of its own, the Jewish Folk cannot carry out the construction of a State, viewed in a territorial sense, but as …"
#war"Additionally, on special petition men should be able to enter into a binding martial relationship not only with one woman, but also with another, who would t…"
#family"Works of art which cannot be understood in themselves but need some pretentious instruction book to justify their existence will never again find their way t…"
#life"Germany has nothing to win in any European war. What we want is freedom and independence. Because of this desire we were ready to conclude pacts of non-aggre…"
#freedom"We do not want a war merely for the purpose of bringing to Germany people who simply do not want to be, or cannot be, Germans."
#Human Nature"Hitler's 25 point national socialist program"
#society"I will tolerate no opposition. We recognize only subordination – authority downwards and responsibility upwards. You just tell the German bourgeoisie that I …"
#justice"This German Volksgemeinschaft is truly practical socialism and therefore National Socialism in the best sense of the word. Here everyone is obligated to carr…"
#writing"National-Socialism came to power in Germany in the same year as Roosevelt was elected President. . . Roosevelt comes from a rich family and belongs to the cl…"
#familyMark Twain
1835 – 1910
Mark Twain (1835) was an American writer and humorist, author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
"Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867), ed. John Paul"
#Aesthetics"I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfe…"
#Ethics"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
#Aesthetics"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
#death"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
#books"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
#Aesthetics"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
#love"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."
#love"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience"
#Human Nature"Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighbourhood, for all the dead people that lived near m…"
#Ethics"I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."
#Aesthetics"He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."
#Aesthetics"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
#life"He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty."
#Aesthetics"From the time a woman is seven years old till she dies of old age, she is ready for action, and competent. As competent as the candlestick to receive the can…"
#time"It [the press] has scoffed at religion till it has made scoffing popular. It has defended official criminals, on party pretexts, until it has created a Unite…"
#Philosophy"I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a divi…"
#humor"She had run down and down and down, and had at last reached a point where medicines no longer had any helpful effect upon her. I said I knew I could put her …"
#knowledge"Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs—the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. We…"
#success"I think the President is clearly insane in several ways, and insanest upon war and its supreme glories. I think he longs for a big war wherein he can spectac…"
#history