Forgotten Fatherland Quotes

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“The myth of Aryan dominance, initially an attempt to trace the lost language of the Aryas, began as a set of undemonstrable racial assumptions, and ended in a colossal, perfectly unscientific lie: “I decide who is Jewish and who is Aryan,” announced Goebbels. That is what the Nazis meant by natural selection.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility—that is the means to real peace.…”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“It was beginning to dawn on me that most of the history of Paraguay revolved around white men chasing after other white men in the jungle, or else trying to turn the brown ones white.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“Nietzsche called the ear “the organ of fear,” and believed that the sense of hearing “could have evolved as greatly as it has only in the night and twilight of obscure caves and woods, in accordance with the mode of life in the age of timidity, that is to say the longest human age there has been: in bright daylight the ear is less necessary. That is how music acquired the character of an art of night and twilight.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“Martin Luther had written “Know, Christian, that next to the devil thou hast no enemy more cruel, more venomous and violent than a true Jew”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“He urged freedom above all, and self-realization, and spurned “the contemptible sort of well-being dreamed of by shopkeepers, Christians, cows, women, Englishmen and other democrats.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“Actually the only one of us who has been to Paraguay in the last thirty years is the Ambassador,” said the receptionist, “and he’s in Wales at the moment.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“Survival, to judge from the racks of guns, knives, gougers, stabbers and garrotters on display, tends to involve homicide.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful, of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man. I am dynamite. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE,
Ecce Homo, “Why I Am Destiny,” I”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“His writing is odd but poetic, a tumbling scree of half-built phrases and hiccuping grammar, vividly redolent of his own chaotic life.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony

“CAPTAIN RAMIREZ: “Ootunondumi rabo Caaguazu.” FRANCISCO: “Bokinmaginum sinking.” RAMIREZ: “Help.”
― Ben Macintyre, Forgotten Fatherland: The True Story of Nietzsche's Sister and Her Lost Aryan Colony