"Where can we draw the line between public duty and personal honor? Shouldn't every genuine leader renounce the idea of degrading himself to the level of a political gangster?
And on the other hand, doesnt every gangster feel the itch to 'play politics' seeing that the final responsibility will never rest with him personally but rather with an anonymous, unaccountable mob?
Doesn't our parliamentary principle of majority rule necessarily lead to the destruction of the idea of leadership?
Does anyone honestly believe that human progress originates in the brain of the majority, and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that future human civilization can dispense with this as a condition of its existence?
Or rather, doesn't this seem to be today to me more indispensable than ever? The parliamentary principle of majority rule rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place."
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
Chapter 3
3.10
Dalton Edition
And on the other hand, doesnt every gangster feel the itch to 'play politics' seeing that the final responsibility will never rest with him personally but rather with an anonymous, unaccountable mob?
Doesn't our parliamentary principle of majority rule necessarily lead to the destruction of the idea of leadership?
Does anyone honestly believe that human progress originates in the brain of the majority, and not in the brain of the individual personality? Or may it be presumed that future human civilization can dispense with this as a condition of its existence?
Or rather, doesn't this seem to be today to me more indispensable than ever? The parliamentary principle of majority rule rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place."
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
Chapter 3
3.10
Dalton Edition