Robert Ley Quotes

It takes a certain political initiative to make people kill one another.

Incitement and anti-Arab hatred increased significantly during the Gaza conflict.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

In violence, we forget who we are.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

Hate them and strike them.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

I want no peace till the Indians suffer more.

War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things.

War always begins with the dehumanizing of the enemy through rhetoric

Death to intellectuals!

National sentiments can cause such sinful phenomena as aggressive nationalism, xenophobia, national exclusiveness and inter-ethnic enmity. At their extremes, these phenomena often lead to the restriction of the rights of individuals and nations, wars and other manifestations of violence

What I would like to emanate from the darkness of this tragedy is one spark of life. I mean, the realization that crime does not begin when you murder people. Crime begins with propaganda, even if such propaganda is for a good cause. The moment propaganda turns against another nation or against any human being, evil starts.

I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out...and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel. ..And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man"--with his mouth.

… without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

War is a crime perpetrated by hearts hardened like weapons

Hit the Poles so hard that they despair of their life; I have full sympathy with their condition, but if we want to survive, we can only exterminate them; the wolf, too, cannot help having been created by God as he is, but people shoot him for it if they can.

Be not discouraged and remember, above all things, that you can have nothing to expect from the enemy [the Union]. They will have no mercy on you, for they are more merciless than wolves, and more rapacious.

There can be no peace until this German spirit of Militarism is crushed.