“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”

“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”

“In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act”

“The only truly consistent are the dead.”

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

“„Hitler´s dictatorship“, he said, „differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical developement, a dicttorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man....Earlier dictators needed highly qualified assistants even at the lowest level – men who could think and act independently. The totalirian system in the period of modern technical development can dispense with such men; thanks to modern methods of communication, i tis possible to mechanize the lower leadership. As a result of this there has arisen the new type of uncritical recipient of orders.“ (Albert Speer)”