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J. Goebbels
Another one of the Nazis hoping to become Chancellor, Heydrich is young, violent and curiously un-ideological. Having come up through the paramilitary SS organization, Heydrich is one of the most feared Nazis. However, because he heads up the Germans’ space program, he is against Operation Dandelion (as he feels it will distract from his own work with rockets). Baynes therefore advocates that the Japanese should partner with Heydrich and try to elevate him over Goebbels.
R. Heydrich Quotes in The Man in the High Castle
The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by R. Heydrich or refer to R. Heydrich. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12
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Evil, Mr. Tagomi thought. Yes, it is. Are we to assist it in gaining power, in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation? I cannot face this dilemma, Mr. Tagomi said to himself. That man should have to act in such moral ambiguity. There is no Way in this; all is muddled. All chaos of light and dark, shadow and substance.
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Chapter 15
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We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.
[Baynes] thought, We can only hope. And try.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
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R. Heydrich Quotes in The Man in the High Castle
The The Man in the High Castle quotes below are all either spoken by R. Heydrich or refer to R. Heydrich. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 12
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Evil, Mr. Tagomi thought. Yes, it is. Are we to assist it in gaining power, in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation? I cannot face this dilemma, Mr. Tagomi said to himself. That man should have to act in such moral ambiguity. There is no Way in this; all is muddled. All chaos of light and dark, shadow and substance.
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Chapter 15
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We can only control the end by making a choice at each step.
[Baynes] thought, We can only hope. And try.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
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