For When A People Is

Great, Truly World-shaking Revolutions Of A Spiritual Nature Are Not Even Conceivable And Realizable Except As The Titanic Struggles Of Individual Formations, Never As Enterprises Of Coalitions.

The Universalists, The Idealists, The Utopians All Aim Too High. They Give Promises Of An Unattainable Paradise, And By Doing So They Deceive Mankind. Whatever Label They Wear, Whether They Call Themselves Christians, Communists, Humanitarians, Whether They Are Merely Sincere But Stupid Or Wire-pullers And Cynics, They Are All Makers Of Slaves. I Myself Have Always Kept My Eye Fixed On A Paradise Which, In The Nature Of Things, Lies Well Within Our Reach. I Mean An Improvement In The Lot Of The German People. (21st February 1945)

I Do Not Know What Horrified Me Most [during The Depression]: The Economic Misery Of My Companions [or] Their Moral And Ethical Coarseness.

No More Than A Famous Master Can Be Replaced And Another Take Over The Completion Of The Half-finished Painting He Has Left Behind Can The Great Poet And Thinker, The Great Statesman And The Great Soldier, Be Replaced. For Their Activity Lies Always In The Province Of Art. It Is Not Mechanically Trained But Inborn By God's Grace.

Industry, Technology, And Commerce Can Thrive Only As Long As An Idealistic National Community Offers The Necessary Preconditions. And These Do Not Lie In Material Egoism, But In A Spirit Of Sacrifice And Joyful Renunciation.