Heinrich von Treitschke quotes

Heinrich von Treitschke quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!”
-- Heinrich von Treitschke

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“The English think soap is civilization.”
-- Heinrich von Treitschke

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“Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set their mark upon barbarian lands and those who fail to participate in this great rivalry will play a pitiable role in time to come.”
-- Heinrich von Treitschke

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“Without war no State could be. All those we know of arose through war, and the protection of their members by armed force remains their primary and essential task. War, therefore, will endure to the end of history, as long as there is a multiplicity of states.”
-- Heinrich von Treitschke

Source : Heinrich von Treitschke (1916). “Politics”

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