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"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms"

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Krishnamurti lands a moral slap where most political commentary prefers a clean target. By calling Hitler and Mussolini "only the primary spokesmen", he refuses the comforting story that fascism is a historical freak event produced by uniquely monstrous men. The provocation is deliberate: he drags the pathology off the podium and into the audience. The real subject isn’t dictators; it’s the everyday appetite for dominance - in the office, the family, the nation, the ego.

The phrasing matters. "Attitude of domination and craving for power" is clinical, almost bloodless, which makes it harder to dismiss as mere outrage. He’s not interested in condemning a regime so much as diagnosing the psychological machinery that keeps producing regimes. The subtext is a rebuke to scapegoating: if you treat tyranny as an external infection, you get to feel pure while repeating the same impulses at a smaller scale - social climbing, tribal belonging, punitive righteousness. His move is to collapse the distance between private desire and public catastrophe.

"Until the source is cleared" signals his lifelong fixation: inner transformation over institutional tinkering. It’s a radical claim and a controversial one. Read sympathetically, it’s an argument that wars and "class antagonisms" are symptoms of a deeper identification with self, status, and group. Read skeptically, it risks flattening structural causes into psychology. Either way, the line works because it denies the reader an easy villain and insists that history’s worst energies recruit ordinary hearts long before they seize a state.

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Krishnamurti, Jiddu. (2026, January 17). Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/hitler-and-mussolini-were-only-the-primary-31923/

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Krishnamurti, Jiddu. "Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/hitler-and-mussolini-were-only-the-primary-31923/.

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"Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/hitler-and-mussolini-were-only-the-primary-31923/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Jiddu Krishnamurti (May 12, 1895 - February 17, 1986) was a Philosopher from India.

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