“Dr. Servatius for once took the initiative and asked the witness a highly pertinent question: ‘Did you try to influence him? Did you, as a clergyman, try to appeal to his feelings, preach to him, and tell him that his conduct was contrary to morality?’ Of course, the very courageous Propst had done nothing of the sort, and his answers now were highly embarrassing. He said that ‘deeds are more effective than words,’ and that ‘words would have been useless’. He spoke in clichés that had nothing to do with the reality of the situation, where ‘mere words’ would have been deeds, and where it had perhaps been the duty of a clergyman to test the ‘uselessness of words.’” – Hannah Arendt (re. Propst Grüber, German Protestant and clear opponent of Hitler)
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