Difference between revisions of "Defying Hitler: A Memoir/Childishness"
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| text = One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later. | | text = One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later. | ||
| cite = [[Sebastian Haffner]], "{{Link |Defying Hitler: A Memoir}}", pg. 17. | | cite = [[Sebastian Haffner]], "{{Link |Defying Hitler: A Memoir}}", pg. 17. | ||
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