Peter Mann > Quotes

“He was the quintessence of the uneducated petty bourgeois, with seething resentments against all foreigners, against anyone who might know better than him, against anyone or anything that might puncture his delusion that he was a member of the highest race and the greatest nation on the face of the earth. This little beer-swilling, wife-beating clod of humanity whose sole occupation in life was to trim weeds had adopted for himself all the noble entitlements, privileges, and petulance of royalty, though with none of the refinement or enlightenment that is the preserve of true”
― Peter Mann, The Torqued Man

“nobility. Here was the gardener who, when he looked in the mirror, saw Frederick the Great. Such a specimen would be laughable if he weren’t so vicious.”
― Peter Mann, The Torqued Man