"[Be wary of war and crisis because these become the sought-after reasons and excuses politicians and other power-hungry individuals and groups use to justify and implement - even supposedly only temporarily - what would never otherwise be accepted even for a moment:] The war [WWII] made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times."

Author: Joseph Paul Goebbels

Notes: (1897-1945) Nazi Germany Propaganda Minister. Source: 'The Goebbels Diaries, 1942-1943'.