Character: General Stumm von Bordewer

The masses need a strong hand, they need leaders who are cool with them, and not just chat.

- Another trend, of course, also wants to love a person. Only it believes that for this it must first be remade by force.

- Eternal truths that are not eternal and not true, but remain valid for a certain time, so that this time could be oriented towards something.

In case of unexpected resistance, it is best to retreat without showing that you have been taken by surprise.

Some demand from us that we help them love all people without exception, and the second - that we allow them to poison others, for the sake of victory of more noble blood.

World history is written before it happens. At first she always appears to be a kind of chatter.

Think historically at least once: how can the direct participants in an event know in advance whether it will be great? They can only imagine that it is great.

Feuermaul writes poetry that a person is kind. Many people now believe in this.

Feelings are also now not the time. Thoughts and feelings are more for those who have nothing to do.

Ideas are constantly running back and forth, and therefore you find them in one battle line, then in another. In a word, you can neither draw up a decent communication scheme, nor draw a demarcation line, nor define anything at all, and all this without saying a bad word - although I can’t even believe it! - looks like what any commander here would call a mess!

The present century has been given a certain number of ideas, and for each idea, by the special grace of fate, at once its anti-idea, so that individualism and collectivism, nationalism and internationalism, imperialism and pacifism, rationalism and superstition feel equally good in it. This already seems as natural as the fact that there is day and night, heat and cold, love and hate.

I usually tell my referees when they bring me some urgent paper: there is nothing urgent in the world except an absence in one place.