... odporovali, i když většinou jen slovy. Jsou to anonymní mučedníci, kteří zmizeli - a z toho je jasně vidět, že účinný odpor nebyl možný. Až do ro… - Karl Jaspers

We are sorely deficient in talking with each other and listening to each other. We lack mobility, criticism and self-criticism. We incline to doctrinism. What makes it worse is that so many people do not really want to think. They want only slogans and obedience. They ask no questions and they give no answers, except by repeating drilled-in phrases. They can only assert and obey, neither probe nor apprehend. Thus they cannot be convinced, either. How shall we talk with people who will not go where others probe and think, where men seek independence in insight and conviction?

Hitlerovo jednání bylo od počátku zaměřeno proti jakékoli možnosti smíření. Existovalo jen vítězství, nebo zkáza.

Crucial for man is his attitude toward failure: whether it remains hidden from him and overwhelms him only objectively at the end or whether he perceives it unobscured as the constant limit of his existence; whether he snatches at fantastic solutions and consolations or faces it honestly, in silence before the unfathomable. The way in which man approaches his failure determines what he will become.