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The War and the Future


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“What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.”

Speech, "The War and the Future" (1940); published in Order of the Day (1942)

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“It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory.”

Speech, "The War and the Future" (1940); published in Order of the Day (1942)
Context: It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

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