Ernst Kaltenbrunner quotes

“I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.”
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Source : Last words on October 16, 1946. "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II". Book by John Lewis-Stempel, p. 564, 2002.

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“Oppression is the essence of power.”
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Source : Said to Heinrich Himmler. "The Rand McNally Encyclopedia of World War II". Book by John Keegan, p. 137, 1977.

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“There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.”
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.

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“The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow.”
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.

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“I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.”
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Source : Last words on October 16, 1946. "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II". Book by John Lewis-Stempel, p. 564, 2002.

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“I do not feel guilty of any war crimes, I have only done my duty as an intelligence organ, and I refuse to serve as an ersatz for Himmler.”
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Source : "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, p. 5, 1995.

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“Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks.”
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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“Russia demanded Armenian territories, very cleverly using long-standing, bitter fights between Armenians and Turks.”
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Source : Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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“I am partly to blame for the decking boom, and I am sorry, I know it?s everywhere these days.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.”

Source : Arthur Edward Waite (2003). “Devil-Worship in France: With Diana Vaughn and the Question of Modern Palladism”, p.219, Weiser Books

“The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.”

Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.

“What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure”

“After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.”

“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.”

Source : Letter to John Adams, 31 Mar. 1776 See Defoe 2

“The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.”

Source : Abraham Cowley, Abraham Cowley, Etc, A. R. Waller (2014). “Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses”, p.377, Cambridge University Press