“From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders.”

Your time will come to follow me Jew

Repentance is for little children.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.

Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.

I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn’t escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one’s own need to think.

Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

Implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this-‘devoted and obedient.’ This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.

The strength of an Army lies in strict discipline and undeviating obedience to its officers.