Not I Quotes

“And, just as he had wished, none of us had ever forgotten the maxim which, he remembered, he had bequeathed us. Indeed, the fine Latin maxim “Even if all others do—I do not!” belonged to every truly free life.”
― Joachim Fest, Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood

“The maxim had often helped him, at any rate, and even saved him from making some wrong decisions, because he had rarely made a mistake when he had followed his own judgment alone. He put a piece of paper in front of each of us and dictated: “Etiam si omnes—ego non! It’s from the Gospel According to St. Matthew,”
― Joachim Fest, Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood

“The most obvious explanation for the success of National Socialism was that... it attracted opportunists”
― Joachim Fest, Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood

“have to see or hear any people.”
― Joachim Fest, Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood