Walter Schellenberg quotes

“For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps.”
-- Walter Schellenberg

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

#Nine Quotes #Resistance Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.”
-- Walter Schellenberg

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

#Enemy Quotes #Lines Quotes #Cold Quotes

“In my opinion, a war between England and Germany was a war between brothers. In my inner self I admired the English government and political system.”
-- Walter Schellenberg

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

#Brother Quotes #War Quotes #Self Quotes

“I could not tell Himmler everything because he was too false and two-faced.”
-- Walter Schellenberg

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn. Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 13, 1946.

#Two Quotes #Himmler Quotes

“This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.”

“What I do for a living is re-create human emotion, and that's a pretty weird thing to do from nine till five.”

“Nine out of 10 war victims die from a gun.”

“Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.”

“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

Source : Alain Badiou (2005). “Metapolitics”, p.7, Verso

“A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.”

“Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.”

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”

“That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013