Playboy Interview Quotes

“The descent into hell can be an exhilarating ride, but it is a one-way trip.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“In such a world, terrorized by technology, we are all in Auschwitz.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“The danger is that the automatism of progress will depersonalize man further and withdraw more and more of his self-responsibility.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“The ideological differences that divide mankind today are, when seen in historical perspective, as transient and evanescent as the religious quarrels of the 16th and 17th centuries; the difference is that in the 20th century, man has the power to totally destroy the race or nation he views as the enemy.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“conquered but as human beings. If I had to draw one single lesson from the horrors of World War Two, it would be not to depersonalize your enemy. Once this happens—whether it is a case of Nazi and Jew, Communist and capitalist or black and white—the greatest crimes are not only feasible but inevitable.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“they always had a word of comfort for me, a reassuring smile, a sympathetic pat on the shoulder. Unless someone has been in prison for a prolonged period, he will not comprehend the importance of such understanding human contact.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“In the isolation of imprisonment, I learned to look inside myself, to study my own weaknesses and strengths;”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“the more technological the world becomes, the more essential will be the demand for individual freedom and the self-awareness of the human being as a counterpoise to technology.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“Here was one of a race we were determined to turn into helots, a people whom we already regarded with utter contempt and indifference as little more than pack animals, giving me what was probably the last of his personal possessions—and for no reason other than that I was a fellow human being threatened by the elements.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“by the time the Americans got their creaky war economy into gear, we would already be the masters of Europe, with the swastika flying from the Kremlin to the Houses of Parliament.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“the Americans were a mongrel race, sapped of creative vitality, poor and cowardly soldiers who could never tip the balance against us.”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries

“In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud discusses the eternal struggle between the life and death urges within man; and in Hitler, the death force held almost uncontested sway. But it’s possible that, at times, he struggled unconsciously against his own evil,”
― Various, Playboy Interview: Killers, Assassins and Revolutionaries