World War Quotes – Reflective Statements on Historical Events

"The fight against the far right has increasingly turned into a fight against one’s own people."

Uwe Heinz Steimle

"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning."

Warren Buffet

"Do you want totalitarian states for the rest of your life and that of your children in order to combat a virus that, even after two years, has not managed to significantly reduce the number of people on Earth? This virus will not disappear! We have to live with it! We must now decide whether we want to do so in freedom or slavery! In peace and prosperity or in war and poverty!"

Antoine Richard

"When I look at the German history of the last hundred years, I do not know if I have to be more afraid of criminals or the state."

Ranga Yogeshwar

"There is another important weapon the totalitarians use in their campaign to frighten the world into submission. This is the weapon of psychological shock. Hitler kept his enemies in a state of constant confusion and diplomatic upheaval. They never knew what this unpredictable madman was going to do next. Hitler was never logical, because he knew that that was what he was expected to be. Logic can be met with logic, while illogic cannot—it confuses those who think straight. The Big Lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason. While the enemy is still searching for a reasonable counter-argument to the first lie, the totalitarians can assault him with another."

Joost A.M. Meerloo

"Out of fear for their share of the spoils, the German Republic was born in the grand ducal velvet armchairs and in the pubs of Weimar, not as a form of government, but as a COMPANY. Its statutes do not mention the PEOPLE, but PARTIES; not power, honor, and greatness, but PARTIES. We no longer have a fatherland, but PARTIES; no rights, but PARTIES; no goal, no future, but the interests of PARTIES. And these parties – once again: not sections of the people, but commercial enterprises with a paid bureaucracy, which were to American parties what a junk shop is to a department store – decided to give the ENEMY everything he wanted, to sign every demand, to awaken in him the courage to make ever greater demands, just so that they could pursue their own goals internally."

Oswald Spengler

"I’m from Germany and I think history is repeating itself right now. Germany is becoming a police state. You are constantly asked for your papers. It’s just like in the Hitler era."

Julia Dietze

"I did my best to promote the oldest goal of our psychological warfare in this way: to incite Germans against Germans."

Sefton Delmer

"To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas."

Brock Chisholm

"The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy."

Avro Manhattan

"It is my opinion that if the liberties of this country – the United States of America – are destroyed, it will be by the subtlety of the Roman Catholic Jesuit priests, for they are the most crafty, dangerous enemies to civil and religious liberty. They have instigated MOST of the wars of Europe."

Marquis de LaFayette

"The public is practically unaware of the overwhelming responsibility carried by the Vatican and its Jesuits in the starting of the two world wars – a situation which may be explained in part by the gigantic finances at the disposition of the Vatican and its Jesuits, giving them power in so many spheres, especially since the last conflict."

Edmond Paris

"The war [i.e., the American Civil War of 1861-1865] would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits."

Abraham Lincoln

"Never before in the course of the world’s history had such a Society [i.e., the Jesuit Order] appeared. The old Roman Senate itself did not lay schemes for world domination with greater certainty of success."

Friedrich von Hardenberg

"Well, of course, the people don't want war. (...) But ultimately, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always easy to get the people to go along with it, whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship."

Hermann Göring

"In times of war, there is a level of information control in reporting that is abhorrent in the case of traditional wars. In the case of a pandemic, however, one must take less democratic measures from one moment to the next [...] Over the past two years, with the outbreak of the pandemic, we have seen that the way our world is organized is outdated. Two aspects are affected by this: communication and global governance. In terms of communication, we immediately used the term “war” because it is a war, but we have not implemented a communication policy in any country that is appropriate for a war [...] I believe that in this pandemic, or at least in future global health disasters, we need to find a system that preserves freedom of expression but reconciles it with information rationed from above."

Mario Monti

"The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

Mark Twain

"Governments love pandemics, & they love pandemics for the same reasons they love war. Because it gives them the possibility of imposing controls on the population that the latter would never accept otherwise."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.