Wilhelm Canaris quotes

Wilhelm Canaris quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler”
-- Wilhelm Canaris

Source : "Admiral Canaris - Chief of Intelligence". Book by Ian Colvin, p. 210, 2007.

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“I have a clear conscience.”
-- Wilhelm Canaris

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“To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.”
“When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”
“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”
“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”
“Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.”
“They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be carried out in the streets. That's like when they tell you after you buy your VHS and you rent movies they tell you not to copy the movies.”
“My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.”
“You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.”
“We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.”
“Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.”

Source : Amy Waldman (2011). “The Submission”, p.160, Random House

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