Adolf Hitler (n.) is a man whose success lay in the odd offer he made to the German people. While socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet (1940).
Adolf Hitler (n.) is a man who, because in his own joyless mind, feels with exceptional strength that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life (1940).
Adolf Hitler (n.) is a man whose grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but it is there. He presents himself as the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon (1940).
Adolf Hitler (n.) was a criminal lunatic with an army of millions of men, and for his sake a great nation was willing to overwork itself for six years and then to fight for two years more.
Adolf Hitler (n.) was better understood by those who called him Antichrist, or alternatively the Holy Ghost, than by the intellectuals who for ten dreadful years kept it up that he was merely a figure out of comic opera.