The National Socialists not only joined the Communists in denouncing Social Democratic bosses, but also practiced egalitarianism, unlike bourgeois pa… - Michael Burleigh

Many of history’s murderers have staked out the moral high ground, killing for love of confession or country, or in the name of social equality.

It's no coincidence that most terrorists are males aged between 18 and 30. One terrorist from the 1960s recently said, 'we half-read a whole lot of theories that we fully understood' - and the same probably applies to Islamic terrorists today. Few have any background in religion, and most are ignorant of Islam. They've just ingested it as slogans, either from the internet or radical clerics, and attached it to some grievance about the persecution of Muslims in other parts of the world.

Nazi ideology offered redemption from a national ontological crisis, to which it was attracted like a predatory shark to blood.