Milton Mayer

Once the war began, the government could do anything 'necessary' to win it; so it was with the 'final solution of the…

— Milton Mayer

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

— Milton Mayer

“It was not anti-Semitism or socialism or the New Order that first animated the Nazis; their first slogal was, "Break the chains…

— Milton Mayer

Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.

— Milton Mayer

“In the years of its rise the movement little by little brought the community's attitude toward the teacher around from respect and…

— Milton Mayer

“I fooled myself. I had to. Everybody has to. If the good had been twice as good and the bad only half…

— Milton Mayer

I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.

— Milton Mayer

“The world once purged by flood ends always again in the surer purgative of fire.”

— Milton Mayer

“Why does a man want his children to be better than himself?”

— Milton Mayer

The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is,…

— Milton Mayer

“I think," says Professor Carl Hermann, who never left his homeland, "that even now the outside world does not realize how surprised…

— Milton Mayer

“How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not…

— Milton Mayer

“None of my ten friends, even today, ascribes moral evil to Hitler, although most of them think (after the fact) that he…

— Milton Mayer

“In the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier.”

— Milton Mayer

“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…

— Milton Mayer

“When I asked Herr Wedekind, the baker, why he had believed in National Socialism, he said, "Because it promised to solve the…

— Milton Mayer

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps…

— Milton Mayer

“National Socialism was a revulsion by my friends against parliamentary politics, parliamentary debate, parliamentary government—against all the higgling and the haggling of…

— Milton Mayer

“My ten friends had been told, not since 1939 but since 1933, that their nation was fighting for its life.”

— Milton Mayer

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

— Milton Mayer