War & Peace Quote by Adolf Hitler

This is the voice of a would-be modernizer talking like a vandal with a blueprint. Hitler frames “generals” as quaint anachronisms, men trapped in “tournies of the Middle Ages,” to delegitimize professional military caution as pageantry: ritual, rules, honor. It’s a cheap but effective contrast. By casting conventional command as costumed sport, he implies it’s not just outdated but unserious, unfit for a world he insists is total, brutal, and ideologically charged.

“I have no use for knights” is doing more than mocking chivalry. It’s an attack on any ethic that restrains violence: the idea that war has limits, that combatants owe each other obligations, that expertise and institutions deserve deference. “I need revolutionaries” signals a preference for fanatics over technicians, loyalty over competence, political will over operational prudence. The subtext is purge logic: replace independent professionals (who might object, hedge, or slow-roll orders) with ideologically aligned agents who treat warfare as a movement, not a craft.

The context is a regime that repeatedly distrusted its own military establishment and sought to fuse war-making with party radicalism, propaganda, and terror. Calling for “revolutionaries” isn’t about tactical innovation; it’s about turning organized violence into an extension of political cleansing and conquest. The line flatters radicals, threatens skeptics, and rationalizes catastrophic escalation by redefining restraint itself as medieval cosplay.