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"The human race will never improve, Nadia! Servitude was all they were ever equipped for! They need a strong and unyielding master like us."
— Emperor Nemo, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
Fan Works
A Pokémon, my Emmisary, is but a tool. Just as we stand above humans with our superior strength of power, we stand above such miserable creatures with our superior strength of mind. As the bearers of both intelligence and might, it is our natural place to rule and do with each as we please.
—Bloodline King, Pokémon Reset Bloodlines
Film
"We are the supreme race. We have the supreme weapons."
— Ship Captain, Teenagers from Outer Space
Live-Action TV
"We make the supreme pizzas!"
Armek: With the eradication of the vermin, Mars is a paradise. The way it was intended to be. The greens have been silenced... the ones who thought they were better than us. We're now one pure hive.
M'gann: So who are we gonna kill next? What other species deserves to be obliterated because you decide you're better than them?
Armek: Whichever one we choose.
M'gann: So who are we gonna kill next? What other species deserves to be obliterated because you decide you're better than them?
Armek: Whichever one we choose.
"The Unity will bring about the master race. Master! Master! One able to survive or even thrive in the wasteland. As long as there are differences, we will tear ourselves apart fighting each other. We need one race. Race! Race! One goal. Goal! Goal! One people to move forward to our destiny. Destiny."
— The Master of the Super Mutants, Fallout
We were the first, the apex race. We will survive.
When Der Fuehrer says, "We ist der master race",
We HEIL! [raspberry] HEIL! [raspberry] Right in Der Fuehrer's face
We HEIL! [raspberry] HEIL! [raspberry] Right in Der Fuehrer's face
Logan: The idea was to create super soldiers for World War II.
Xavier: A master race?
Logan: Mmmrr... these were the good guys. They didn't mean it like that.
Xavier: Yes, they never do. At first.
Xavier: A master race?
Logan: Mmmrr... these were the good guys. They didn't mean it like that.
Xavier: Yes, they never do. At first.
Only racially higher peoples are creators and bearers of a high culture. Only they determine the course of events. Inferior races have no history. They lack the necessary ability, the ability to master their own fate. Only racially advanced peoples have this ability. Races that do not have the courage to make history have no history. The life of a people does not develop mechanically, nor does it develop steadily. It is a constant struggle with nature and the environment, and above all with other peoples. It is an eternal battle, an eternal struggle. There is no unified, gradual development of all peoples to a common goal.
If an illustrator, painter, or sculptor wants to represent the image of a bold, goal-determined, resolute person, or of a noble, superior, and heroic human being, man or woman, he will in most cases create an image which more or less approximates the image of the Nordic race. He will also create a man who will be regarded as a typical representative of the upper social strata. For example, the artists for the humorous journals will endow their creations with the features of the Nordic race rather than the features of the non-Nordic races of Europe.
Actually, one could conceivably designate will power, a definite faculty of judgment rooted in a coolly deliberating sense of reality, the impulse to truthfulness, an inclination to knightly justice, as the repeatedly striking psychical features of Nordic men. Such features can be intensified in individuals within the Nordic race to a pronouncedly heroic disposition, to a transcendent leadership in statesmanship or creativity in technology, science, and art. The relatively great number of Nordic people among the famous and outstanding men and women of all Western countries is striking, as also is the relatively low number of famous men and women without noticeable Nordic strain.
Actually, one could conceivably designate will power, a definite faculty of judgment rooted in a coolly deliberating sense of reality, the impulse to truthfulness, an inclination to knightly justice, as the repeatedly striking psychical features of Nordic men. Such features can be intensified in individuals within the Nordic race to a pronouncedly heroic disposition, to a transcendent leadership in statesmanship or creativity in technology, science, and art. The relatively great number of Nordic people among the famous and outstanding men and women of all Western countries is striking, as also is the relatively low number of famous men and women without noticeable Nordic strain.
— Hans F. K. Gunther
In opposition to this, the Volkish view recognizes the importance of mankind in its racially innate elements. In principle, it sees in the state only a means to an end, and as its end it considers the preservation of the racial existence of men. Thus it by no means believes in an equality of the races, but with their differences it also recognizes their superior and inferior values, and by this recognition it feels the obligation in accordance with the Eternal Will that dominates this universe to promote the victory of the better and stronger, and to demand the submission of the worse and the weaker. Thus in principle it favors also the fundamental aristocratic thought of nature and believes in the validity of this law down to the last individual.
"The German people must rise as a master-folk above the inferior peoples of Europe and the primitive peoples of the colonies."
Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
—Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, delivering his infamous "Cornerstone speech"
"[The Union soldiers] know, now, that when they go forth to the field they will encounter a master race. The consciousness of this fact will cause their knees to tremble"
—The Richmond Examiner
(September 27th, 1861)
(September 27th, 1861)For 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,' we have deliberately substituted Slavery, Subordination and Government [...] Among equals equality is right; among those who are naturally unequal, equality is chaos; that there are Slave Races born to serve, master races born to govern. [...] Reverently we feel that our Confederacy is a God-sent missionary to the nations, with great truths to teach. We must speak them boldly; and whose hath ears to hear let him hear.
The whole experience of the war is an attestation of the truth long since discovered by impartial observers, that the master race of this continent is found in the Southern States. Of a better stock, originally, and habituated to manlier pursuits and exercises, they have ruled in affairs of State by force of the stronger will and larger wisdom that pertain to and distinguish superior races of men, while on the field of battle they have in every contest held a priority of place, conceded to them by their present adversaries.
—Richmond Whig (June 25, 1862)
"The British race is the greatest governing race that the world has ever seen."
—Joseph Chamberlain (1895), The British Secretary of State for the Colonies
A new aristocracy of German masters will arise. That aristocracy will have slaves assigned to them, recruited from landless non-German nationals and these slaves will be their property.
—Walter Darré, German Minister of Agriculture. December 6, 1940.
The law, as far as relations between Poles and Germans are concerned, is that the German peasant is superior to the Polish magnate, the German laborer to the Polish intellectual; there is no common measure for Germans and Poles for it would deprive the German of his status of master.
—Instruction for the guidance of National Socialist Party members concerning policy in the East, 1940
The German race, that is our faith. It has higher rights than all others. A German laborer is worth more than an English lord. We have the divine right to rule and we shall assure ourselves of that right...It is not true that the nations of Europe are equal. It is nonsense to maintain that all nations have equal rights.
—Robert Ley at Lodz, February 19, 1940.
