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Why does The Holocaust persist in haunting our conscience? Why does it dominate the introspection of philosophers and historians alike? By the numbers alone, the murders were not unprecedented. At that juncture of 20th Century history, Stalin and Lenin had already brutally murdered tens of millions. The Holocaust fascinates not because of its numbers, but because of the means employed. At no point in time had an entire society dedicated its full might to the perpetual elimination of those unwanted elements of the population. Every aspect of Hitler’s National Socialism was geared towards cleansing and improving the breeding stock of Germania. Hitler’s National Socialist government was focused on the breeding, education, and training of a “master race.” The social, cultural, legislative, and industrial mechanisms of Hitler’s National Socialism were designed to perpetually “select” its populace. The central planners of National Socialism would “select” those that would live, those that would die, and those that would be sterilized slave labor. National Socialism was intended to have the “total” control to decide who would be allowed to procreate, and as a result, those that would be allowed to contribute to Hitler’s ideal society.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

If they don't go out and literally lift their footprint up in the air, they're going to be in a perpetually deeper and deeper bathtub, if they think they have problems now, in 10 years, they're going to be a swamp.

Jason Straka

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Regardless of who wins the presidency, only about half of Americans are likely to support the President, and many of the other half will be perpetually motivated to oppose the President. That leaves a thin margin of error in any crisis, which may induce extreme caution for fear of losing political support and exposing the administration to damaging political criticisms.

Ankit Panda

Found on CNN
3 years ago

American Atheists Oklahoma State Director Tim Ward said in a statement. Roger Byron, senior counsel toFirst Liberty Institute -- the group that successfullydefendedthe Bladensburg Peace Cross at the Supreme Court -- disagrees. SOUTH DAKOTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO DISPLAY IN GOD WE TRUST, UNDER TERMS OF NEW LAW Despite the claims of the perpetually offended, there are few things in our country today more unifying across the cultural and political spectrum than our national motto.

Roger Byron

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Can you imagine working at the following Company? It has a little over 500 employees with the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse. 7 have been arrested for fraud. 19 have been accused of writing bad checks. 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses. 3 have been arrested for assault. 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit. 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges. 8 have been arrested for shoplifting. 21 are current defendants in law suits. 84 were stopped for drunk driving in 1998 alone. Can you guess which organization this is? Give up? It's the 535 members of your United States Congress. The same group that perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of us in line.

Jack Sharp

added by Normando
4 years ago

Perpetually restless, Thomas Wolfe was “without a home — a vagabond since [he] was seven” and seeking out where he belonged physically (i.e. in Asheville, his home or Harvard) as well as intellectually. This concept that he was indeed without a father led him to gain greater understanding, eventually realizing that his search for a patriarch was not merely a “father in the flesh,” but a substitution for God, a guiding light, and an alluring source of inspiration.

Nicholas Alahverdian

added by anonymous
5 years ago

You have to accept the fact that you are living perpetually in limbo and you adapt and the key to that is to not let anything really rattle you. You can be packed to go to the oil fields in Northern Alberta, Canada and you get on the Gulf Stream and they say ‘surprise we are going to Singapore…’ and you just accept and the key to that is to not worry about the little stuff and stay focused on the mission.

Shawn Engbrecht

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

Olivia de Havilland

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

There's a compounding and unraveling chaos that is perpetually in motion in the Dark Web's toxic underbelly.

James Scott

added by williamson
7 years ago

I cannot see how John Allen can support somebody who perpetually cannot tell the truth.

Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It literally felt outdated before we even released it, technology moves faster than science can study it, so we are perpetually behind in our advice and our recommendations.

Ari Brown

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

My basic disagreement with producers was that I didn't want to be perpetually cooing in a lady's ear, there is not much aesthetic satisfaction in it.

The Jourdans ' only child

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

Elizabeth Gaskell

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refreshed, ready to draw from the same storehouse -- always open, always full, always abundant -- new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul -- its gaiety or its sadness. As with our perishable flesh. talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.

Eugène Delacroix

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Harriet Martineau

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Havelock Ellis

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Gelett Burgess

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.

Charles Peguy

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Gelett Burgess

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Ogden Nash

added by anonymous
14 years ago

All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Indira Nehru Gandhi

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Margaret Fuller

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James Baldwin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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