The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (218 page)

Hitler, Adolf
1889–1945

1
The broad mass of a nation…will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Mein Kampf
(1925) vol. 1, ch. 10

2
The night of the long knives.
referring to the massacre of Ernst Roehm and his associates by Hitler on 29–30 June 1934 (subsequently associated with Harold Macmillan's Cabinet dismissals of 13 July 1962)

S. H. Roberts
The House Hitler Built
(1937) pt. 2, ch. 3

3
I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

speech in Munich, 15 March 1936

4
It is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is the claim from which I will not recede and which, God-willing, I will make good.
on the Sudetenland

speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 September 1938

5
My patience is now at an end!

speech at Berlin Sportpalast, 26 September 1938

 
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Ho, Lady
fl. 300
bc

1
When a pair of magpies fly together
They do not envy the pair of phoenixes.

"A Song of Magpies"; K. Rexroth and Chung (eds.)
The Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China
(1972)

 
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Hobbes, Thomas
1588–1679

1
By art is created that great Leviathan, called a commonwealth or state, (in Latin
civitas
) which is but an artificial man…and in which, the sovereignty is an artificial soul.

Leviathan
(1651); introduction

2
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

Leviathan
(1651) pt. 1, ch. 11

3
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man.

Leviathan
(1651) pt. 1, ch. 13

4
For as the nature of foul weather, lieth not in a shower or two of rain; but in an inclination thereto of many days together: so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.

Leviathan
(1651) pt. 1, ch. 13

5
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Leviathan
(1651) pt. 1, ch. 13

6
Liberties…depend on the silence of the law.

Leviathan
(1651) pt. 2, ch. 16

7
The papacy is not other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Leviathan
(1651) pt. 4, ch. 47

8
I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

last words; attributed (cf. ), but with no authoritative source

 
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Hobhouse, John Cam
, Lord Broughton 1786–1869

1
When I invented the phrase "His Majesty's Opposition" [Canning] paid me a compliment on the fortunate hit.

Recollections of a Long Life
(1865) vol. 2, ch. 12.

 
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Hobsbawm, Eric
1917–

1
This was the kind of war which existed in order to produce victory parades.
of the Falklands War

in
Marxism Today
January 1983

 
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