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...conquer oneself, to curb anger, to spare the vanquished, to raise the fallen enemy-a man who does this I shall not compare with the greatest of men, but will deem as most like...
...name appeared on concert programs as often as Beethoven's and is familiar to everyone who appreciates good music. Bruno Walter made it his foremost task to bring Bruckner to the understanding of the American audience and I am positive Bruckner's symphonies will finally conquer their right place in the hearts of the American public...
This statement is not true. The New Republic's action in demanding that the U.S. enter the war was solely the work of its editors. We believed that Hitler intended to conquer the world; that as matters stood ... he had a good chance of succeeding, and that the U.S. ought to get into the conflict before Great Britain was knocked out. . ...We think now that we were absolutely right in our decision...
...ideology, says Heiden, was planted in 1864 by a French lawyer who wrote a satire on the dictatorship of Napoleon III. This book was rewritten by the anti-Semitic Russian secret police so that it appeared to be an outline of the methods by which the Jews hoped to conquer the world. Entitled The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, it eventually fell into the hands of a youthful, anti-Semitic "intellectual" named Alfred Rosenberg. He called it "a sign from heaven" and took it to Germany in 1918. Its program of "how to establish dictatorship with the help...
...this art of contradiction which makes him the greatest . . . propagandist of his time. . . . He follows the shifting currents of public opinion," knowing always that "the weakness of this intellectual age" is its search for "the man who can master it. ... One scarcely need ask with what arts he conquered the masses; he did not conquer them, he portrayed and represented them...