“The fact is, I think, that my friends really didn't know. They didn't know because they didn't want to know; but they didn't know. They could have found out, at the time, only if they had wanted to very badly.” — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the Jewish problem,'… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all. — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“It was not anti-Semitism or socialism or the New Order that first animated the Nazis; their first slogal was, "Break the chains of Versailles.” — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking. — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community's attitude toward the teacher around from respect and envy to… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to. If the good had been twice as good and the bad only half as bad,… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me. — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“The world once purged by flood ends always again in the surer purgative of fire.” — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“I think," says Professor Carl Hermann, who never left his homeland, "that even now the outside world does not realize how surprised we non-Nazis… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“None of my ten friends, even today, ascribes moral evil to Hitler, although most of them think (after the fact) that he made fatal… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“In the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier.” — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
“The fact is, I think, that my friends really didn't know. They didn't know because they didn't want to know; but they didn't know.… — Milton Mayer Copy Share Image
