The Kaiser's Web Quotes

“Clever be the tongue that can speak without talking. - old saying”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“Expanding the police. Building new prisons. Re-instituting the death penalty. Rewriting textbooks to preserve a so-called national memory. Requiring everyone to participate in patriotic displays. Even establishing a national language and religion. These are the directions our new despots will head and the people will willingly follow because, after all, who could argue with any of those.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“something Hitler once said. The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“The talent is in controlling the method and possessing the ability to start and stop, never allowing anyone to know they are being led. He who possesses that, possesses all.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“keep in mind what Goebbels said. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“One Nazi meant nothing, forty were a nuisance, forty thousand nearly ruled Europe.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“STAND-ALONE NOVELS The Columbus Affair The Third Secret The Romanov Prophecy The Amber Room CASSIOPEIA VITT NOVELLAS (WITH M. J. ROSE) The Museum of Mysteries The Lake of Learning The House of Long Ago”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“Sadly, memories of World War II, the Holocaust, and the gulags fade by the day. New-right leaders promise a return to the strong welfare state of the past, but with the caveat that it be ethnically and racially bound. They spew forth a range of patriarchal, racist, and homophobic ideas, each made more palatable by wrapping those concepts in racial purity and national honor. And they are winning elections. Even more important, they are framing issues. And the old wisdom is correct. He who frames an issue, wins that issue more often than not. Sadly, what Hitler said so long ago still rings true today. The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“This novel deals with the rise of the new right across Europe. It’s a troubling issue, one that continues to escalate (chapter 64). Incidents of violence and how local courts and law enforcement turn a blind eye (chapter 18) are not fiction. Anger toward Jews and immigrants is steadily increasing (chapter 57). Nationalistic parties across the Continent are gaining more and more followers. Why is this happening? A number of factors are contributing. The greatest mass movement of humanity since the beginning of the 20th century, refugees from Eastern Europe, Turkey, Africa, and the Middle East, has placed an enormous strain on resources. A decade of little to no European economic growth has only added to the frustration, as has the failure of the old social welfare state. A generation of strong leaders are aging and dying off, their places taken by less competent populists who have a growing disillusionment with the European Union. They argue that the EU is no longer a place of peace, prosperity, cooperation, and harmony.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“The book Five Love Languages exists”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“A cycle. As clear there as in politics. Good, then bad, then good, then more bad, more good. He remembered telling Stephanie when he retired that he was fed up with the nonsense. A change in habits must surely lead to a change of thoughts. There had to be a calmer place. She’d smiled at his naïveté and promptly explained that so long as the earth was inhabited by people, there would be no calm place. The game was the same everywhere: Only the players changed, not the rules, not the stakes, not the risks—only the players. And again she was right.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“She was seventy-four years old, way past what anyone would consider the prime of life. Not old. Not finished. But definitely tired.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“so long as the earth was inhabited by people, there would be no calm place.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“To truly win a war, attack the enemy’s plan.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“Speed lacks careful thought and generates too much risk.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“truth is only needed when sufficient reasons make it necessary”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“Lies have short legs.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“At some point the living must let go of the dead.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“Good preparation led to good results”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“everybody absorbed love in five basic ways. Quality time. Receiving gifts. Acts of service. Physical touch. Words of affirmation.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“we must defend ourselves against extremism … from the beginning.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“In 1920 the National Socialist Party was thought to be a joke,” Eisenhuth said. “By 1933 it ruled Germany. If history has taught us nothing else, we have learned that we must defend ourselves against extremism … from the beginning.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“He who frames an issue, wins that issue more often than not. - unknown”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“It is strange how youth invigorates us with energy, but denies us the wisdom to make the right choices. - Gerhard Schüb”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“The answer to your inquiry is quite simple. You have no need for enemies. You play that role for yourself with perfection. - Kurt Eisenhuth”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“They became like poles on a magnet, bound together but forever separated by forces neither of them could affect.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“Subtlety is a lost art. - Ada”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“Never let your opponent speak unilaterally.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“Modern Germans were confirmed pacifists. They wanted no mention of the former wars, either directly or indirectly. By and large they were consumed with historical guilt, bleeding their anguish in rivulets of pride.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web

“Where Americans are the British never fully trusted the government and used skepticism to keep officials at bay, Germans seemed to embrace their leaders with an unfettered devotion.”
― Steve Berry, The Kaiser's Web