“The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“[Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism:]

Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the implementation of the work of Charles Darwin is a filthy slander, undeserving of you and an insult to this audience. Darwin’s thought was not taught in Germany; Darwinism was so derided in Germany along with every other form of unbelief that all the great modern atheists, Darwin, Einstein and Freud were alike despised by the National Socialist regime.

Now, just to take the most notorious of the 20th century totalitarianisms – the most finished example, the most perfected one, the most ruthless and refined one: that of National Socialism, the one that fortunately allowed the escape of all these great atheists, thinkers and many others, to the United States, a country of separation of church and state, that gave them welcome – if it’s an atheistic regime, then how come that in the first chapter of Mein Kampf, that Hitler says that he’s doing God’s work and executing God’s will in destroying the Jewish people? How come the fuhrer oath that every officer of the Party and the Army had to take, making Hitler into a minor god, begins, “I swear in the name of almighty God, my loyalty to the Fuhrer?” How come that on the belt buckle of every Nazi soldier it says Gott mit uns, God on our side? How come that the first treaty made by the Nationalist Socialist dictatorship, the very first is with the Vatican? It’s exchanging political control of Germany for Catholic control of German education. How come that the church has celebrated the birthday of the Fuhrer every year, on that day until democracy put an end to this filthy, quasi-religious, superstitious, barbarous, reactionary system?

Again, this is not a difference of emphasis between us. To suggest that there’s something fascistic about me and about my beliefs is something I won't hear said and you shouldn't believe.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. ”
― Adolf Hitler

“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
― Adolf Hitler

“The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi hakenkreuz, but for a boy growing up after 1945 the shock of encountering the emblem at all was a memorable one. I later learned that in the mid-1930s Kipling had caused this 'signature' to be removed from all his future editions. Having initially sympathized with some of the early European fascist movements, he wanted to express his repudiation of Hitlerism (or 'the Hun,' as he would perhaps have preferred to say), and wanted no part in tainting the ancient Indian rune by association. In its origin it is a Hindu and Jainas symbol for light, and well worth rescuing.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“There was nothing conservative about Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an artist and a revolutionary at heart. He wanted to completely upend and remake German society.”
― A.E. Samaan

“The awakening of a new basic attitude towards existence is not the first thing that we must do, but the first thing that must happen in us... Only when this completely irrational, above - moral, and above - personal transformation has taken place inside of us will all instructions given here gain a sense. There is no directive and no rule which could replace this unique act or could be compared with it. ”
― Dr. Ernst Schertel, Magic: History, Theory, Practice

“We have no quarrel with the German nation,
One would not quarrel with a flock of sheep.
But, generation after generation,
They throw up leaders who disturb our sleep.”
― Alan Herbert

“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to personalize or 'objectify' them in the figure of one individual. Yet ordinary discourse would be unfeasible without the use of portmanteau terms—like 'Stalinism,' say—just as the most scrupulous insistence on historical forces will often have to concede to the sheer personality of a Napoleon or a Hitler. I thought then, and I think now, that Osama bin Laden was a near-flawless personification of the mentality of a real force: the force of Islamic jihad. And I also thought, and think now, that this force absolutely deserves to be called evil, and that the recent decapitation of its most notorious demagogue and organizer is to be welcomed without reserve. Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy

“All Fascism did not die with Mussolini. Hitler is finished--but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains. It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than it is to kill the ideas which gave them birth and strength.”
― Harry Truman

“There are bigger villains than Adolf, but they are not deemed villain so long as they do white man no harm.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.”
― Adolf Hitler

“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler”
― J.D. Vance

“During the Civil War, especially in the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation, idealists from many corners of Europe crossed the Atlantic to join the crusade against slavery. In New York, an international brigade named in honor of Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi was formed to assist the army of Lincoln. Declared Garibaldi: “The American question is about life for the liberty of the world.” A less rosy assessment, from a very different source, came many years later: “The beginnings of a great new social order based on the principle of slavery were destroyed by that war,” lamented Adolf Hitler, “and with them also the embryo of a truly great America.”

Hitler fantasized that the United States so fully shared his racist views that it would ultimately side with the Third Reich. Nazi writers regularly pointed to America’s anti-Asian immigration quotas and bigoted Jim Crow laws to deflect foreign criticism of their own discriminatory statutes. Even the German quest for Lebensraum found its model in America’s westward expansion, during which, as Hitler noted, U.S. soldiers and frontiersmen “gunned down … millions of Redskins.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“In the 19th century, many European countries sought colonies. Leopold II long cherished the ambition to give a colony to Belgium. He came into contact with British explorer Stanley, who found no interest in Central Africa in London. Later, the British would regret it. They discredited the Congo Free State to get their hands on Katanga and its mining resources. In 1908 London tried to sabotage Belgium’s takeover of the Congo Free State by formulating conditions. But other countries did not follow that line. In 1911, the British signed a secret agreement with Germany on a reallocation of Africa; the Germans would not follow through. In 1937 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain offered Hitler ‘half of the Belgian Congo’ in exchange for peace in Europe; but the Fuhrer refused.”
― Jean-Pierre Nzeza Kabu Zex-Kongo, Léopold II Le plus grand chef d'Etat de l'histoire du Congo (Études africaines)

“There are bigger villains than Adolf, but they are not deemed villain so long as they do white man no harm. Two world wars count for nothing, compared to the struggles of the rest of the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Chernivtsi's history renders foolish the idea that multiculturalism was new to European history; the ethnically cleansed straight-line borders such as the Oder-Neisse Line or the Curzon Line were the real innovations. They were there because of the escalation in hatred and violence in mid 20th-century Europe that had resulted in catastrophe. Different peoples have lived together - not always comfortably, of course - for longer than they have lived apart. A living continent is constantly changing, as Friedrich Naumann imagined his Mitteleuropa pullulating with life; the rigid, sterile classifications that Hitler and Stalin imposed on Europe and with which we lived for decades are deadly as well as boring.”
― Lewis Baston, Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told from the Edges

“Once, Hitler spoke on the sweetness of death, calling life a "valley of tears." However, there is only one way to save humanity from an eternity of suffering - genocide.”
― Masahiko Takajo, Riki-Oh, Vol. 4

“Existe un mito muy peligroso de que Hitler fue alimentado únicamente por el racismo. Su deseo de diseñar la sociedad era omnipresente. El racismo por sí solo no puede explicar lo que sucedió en el Holocausto sin abordar también las políticas estatistas de Hitler.”
― A.E. Samaan, Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter

“La afirmación de que las teorías de Darwin eran el centro de la eugenesia, la ciencia racial en el núcleo del nazismo, no son nuevas. No son historia revisionista hecha a partir las revelaciones de los campos de la muerte. Estas afirmaciones preceden al Holocausto por varias décadas. Los íconos de la ciencia estadounidenses y británicos, a saber, los familiares y colegas de Darwin, afirmaban esto antes de que Adolf Hitler naciera, y continuaron haciéndolo hasta el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.”
― A.E. Samaan, Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter

“La izquierda progresista no puede sobrevivir a un recuento honesto de las políticas internas de Hitler, como tampoco Medusa puede mirar su reflejo en un espejo.”
― A.E. Samaan, Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter

“La forma de gobierno "nacionalsocialista" de Hitler fue una de las primeras en enfocar toda la fuerza de su gobierno para llevar a cabo iniciativas de salud obligatorias. No es casualidad que el campo de concentración de Dachau utilizara su mano de obra esclava para dirigir la granja de productos orgánicos más grande de la época.”
― A.E. Samaan, Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter

“Con las brasas todavía ardiendo: la comunidad científica se ha lamentado profundamente su participación en la creación de la bomba atómica, y ha hecho un examen de conciencia realmente escaso respecto a su creación de la ciencia de la eugenesia. Las 450 000 muertes debidas a la bomba son relativamente pequeñas frente a los muchos millones de muertos resultantes de la campaña eugenésica del nacionalsocialismo. Las víctimas del Holocausto son las víctimas de la ciencia de la eugenesia, por la que tantos científicos habían hecho campaña activamente antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Sin embargo, la comunidad científica se ha enfrentado a su complicidad con el silencio colectivo y, a veces, con la censura absoluta cuando se trata del tema de la eugenesia.”
― A.E. Samaan, Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter

“Los periódicos estadounidenses solían elogiar frecuentemente la eugenesia justo antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el Holocausto... Es decir, hasta que Hitler reveló cómo era realmente la eugenesia. Evitaron el tema durante décadas a partir de entonces.”
― A.E. Samaan, Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter

“Ciertos progresistas estadounidenses y socialistas fabianos británicos tienen mucha suerte de que Adolf Hitler fuera un plagiario, y que no citara su trabajo sobre eugenesia al escribir Mein Kampf. De lo contrario, la historia los recordaría de manera diferente.”
― A.E. Samaan, Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter

“El término "totalitario" se derivó del "estado total" de Adolf Hitler, que era una solución "de la cuna a la tumba" que buscaba la microgestión de todos los aspectos de la vida humana.”
― A.E. Samaan, Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter

“No había nada conservador en Adolf Hitler. Hitler era un artista y un revolucionario de corazón. Quería cambiar y rehacer por completo la sociedad alemana.”
― A.E. Samaan, Thoughts in the Ether: Pensamientos en el Éter

“ADOLF HITLER, n. An Austrian
psychopath who, among hundreds
of horrible things, is also responsible
for Schulzwang, a.k.a. compulsory
school attendance in Germany.”
― Jonas Koblin, The Unschooler's Educational Dictionary: A Lighthearted Introduction to the World of Education and Curriculum-Free Alternatives