Thinker Comparison

Adolf Hitler vs. Thomas Carlyle

Read 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Thomas Carlyle. Compare the wording and topic labels.

Shared topic labels:
justice
time
life

This page places 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Thomas Carlyle. 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: justice, time, life. 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 Thomas Carlyle, entry #69180: "The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."

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Adolf Hitler

1889 – 1945

Politics
German Reich
193 quotes

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

"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

"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…"

#family

"Antisemitism based on purely emotional grounds will always find its ultimate expression in the form of pogroms. A rational antisemitism, however, must lead t…"

#leadership

"John Cornwell, Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII, Viking, 1999."

#history

"Germany will on her side never break the peace. Germany wishes to be on an honourable footing with the neighbour peoples."

#Human Nature

"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

"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

"I alone bear the responsibility. But I am not a criminal because of that. If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the revo…"

#philosophy

"1943 Psychological Profile of Hitler written by Dr. Henry A. Murray for the wartime Office of Strategic Services"

#philosophy

"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

"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual and the Marxist concept of humanity and to substitu…"

#Human Nature

"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

"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

"In my scheme of the German state, there will be no room for the alien, no use for the wastrel, for the usurer or speculator, or anyone incapable of productiv…"

#work

"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

"The struggle between the people and the hatred amongst them is being nurtured by very specific interested parties. It is a small, rootless, international cli…"

#life

"Triumph of the Will on facinghistory.org"

#history
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Thomas Carlyle

1795 – 1881

Philosophy
Kingdom of Great Britain
402 quotes

Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher. Known as the "sage of Chelsea", his writings strongly influenced the intellectual and artistic culture of the Victorian era.

"The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."

#life

"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all."

#politics

"This Burns appeared under every disadvantage: uninstructed, poor, born only to hard manual toil; and writing, when it came to that, in a rustic special diale…"

#writing

"Thou, O World, how wilt thou secure thyself against this man? Thou canst not hire him by thy guineas; nor by thy gibbets and law-penalties restrain him. He e…"

#justice

"Henry of Essex's religion was the Inner Light or Moral Conscience of his own soul; such as is vouchsafed still to all souls of men;—which Inner Light shone h…"

#religion

"The Soldier is perhaps one of the most difficult things to realise; but Governments, had they not realised him, could not have existed: accordingly he is here."

#life

"Cannot we understand how these men worshipped Canopus; became what we call Sabeans, worshipping the stars? Such is to me the secret of all forms of Paganism.…"

#knowledge

"Oceans of horse-hair, continents of parchment, and learned-sergeant eloquence, were it continued till the learned tongue wore itself small in the indefatigab…"

#knowledge

"Men do reverence men. Men do worship in that 'one temple of the world,' as Novalis calls it, the Presence of a Man! Hero- worship, true and blessed, or else …"

#religion

"On the whole, we will repeat that this Religion of Mahomet's is a kind of Christianity; has a genuine element of what is spiritually highest looking through …"

#religion

"An intellectual dapperling of these times boasts chiefly of his irresistible perspicacity, his “dwelling in the daylight of truth,” and so forth; which, on e…"

#time

"O reader, to what shifts is poor Society reduced, struggling to give still some account of herself, in epochs when Cash Payment has become the sole nexus of …"

#books

"I called it a small light shining and shaping in the huge vortex of Norse darkness. Yet the darkness itself was alive; consider that. It was the eager inarti…"

#life

"For the Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing somethin…"

#knowledge

"There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done."

#knowledge

"Nay, am not I also the humble James Carlyle's work? I owe him much more than existence, I owe him a noble inspiring example . It was he exclusively that dete…"

#life

"it is our fatalest misery just now, not easily alterable, and yet urgently requiring to be altered, That no British man can attain to be a Statesman, or Chie…"

#justice

"But greatly his most important culture he had gathered — and this, too, by his own endeavors — from the better part of the district, the religious men; to wh…"

#nature

"The Great Man here too, as always, is a Force of Nature. Whatsoever is truly great in him springs up from the inarticulate deeps."

#nature

"Religion was the pole-star for my father. Rude and uncultivated as he otherwise was, it made him and kept him "in all points a man." Oh! when I think that al…"

#knowledge
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