Alan Bullock

“Historians should be looked upon as members of a craft, guild, or profession, not as a separate race of beings.”

“Hitler's originality lay not in his ideas, but in the terrifying literal way in which he set to work to translate them into reality.”

“If the evidence of history is to be trusted, it is that there is no single, simple, and final set of answers to the problems of society.”

“Humanism is not a system of thought, but a cast of mind.”

“What is striking is the way he [Hitler] combined a gift for rational calculation with the capacity to be swept away by his own emotions.”

“The great problem of the twentieth century was the problem of how to reconcile the claims of individual freedom with the claims of social justice.”

“Hitler discovered his own originality as a politician in his unique and masterly sense of propaganda.”

“In the end, what is clear is that the Nazi regime was a criminal enterprise, and that Hitler was its chief architect.”

“The humanist tradition is not a single body of doctrine... it is a continuing debate.”

“The one thing that is clear is that Hitler was a man of extraordinary will-power.”

“Success and failure are not true opposites and they're not even worthy of one another. But failure is a magnificent teacher.”

“Hitler had a powerful and hypnotic personality, and this is something that is not conveyed by the written record.”