The Einstein of Sex Quotes

“Nazism, with its fascist alchemy, transformed class tensions into racial tensions. To turn a social democracy into a fascist dictatorship, Magnus explained, the Nazis needed race. How else to replace a politics of universal rights with a politics of us and them?”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“the attack had really begun on the night of May 5 when the Nazis posted a guard in front of the institute. Early the next morning, the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, a Nazi-aligned newspaper, announced that this would be the day the libraries would be cleansed of “books of un-German spirit.” This nationwide campaign, it explained, would begin with the most reviled trove of all: the archive of the Institute for Sexual Science.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“Magnus noted sadly, the “pent-up emotions” of trans individuals who face barriers to acceptance in their wider society, led to elevated levels of mental illness.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“In his Shanghai lectures no less than his talks in segregated America, Magnus “made no secret of the fact that as a biologist I can never approve the drawing of the ‘colour line.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“We are fighting for the most precious possessions of men and women—justice, freedom, and love. Our enemies are powerful, but they are not invincible.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“Born in Berlin in 1910”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“As a believer in the concept of hybrid vigor”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“For the fourth installment”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“Today we base the demand for the greatest possible freedom for the greatest possible number of people on diversity.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“Magnus saw that when it came to achieving progress on gay rights”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“It is surely obvious,” Magnus wrote”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“social categories were arbitrary. They were unintentional commentaries on the observers rather than impartial descriptions of the observed.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“To Magnus”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“no group defended the liberal creed of free inquiry”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“Traveling the globe”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“As with sexuality, the categories tell us more about the categorizer than the categorized. The racists have not discovered race; they have invented race." -Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin