“I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger.”
Letter from prison (19 December 1953)
Context: I feel my belief in sacrifice and struggle getting stronger. I despise the kind of existence that clings to the miserly trifles of comfort and self-interest. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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L A Times, 26 Jan 1992 http://articles.latimes.com/1992-01-26/magazine/tm-1126_1_julie-kavner/5
On having a different definition of liberation during the 1970s in “GOLDIE HAWN” https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/goldie-hawn in Interview Magazine (2017 Apr 25)
“Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.”
Es ist nicht der Kampf der Meinungen, welcher die Geschichte so gewaltthätig gemacht hat, sondern der Kampf des Glaubens an die Meinungen, das heisst der Ueberzeugungen.
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / excerpt from aphorism 630
Source: Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
As quoted in The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh, p.1884
1930s