Jesper Bugge Kold > Quotes

“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“All discussion between students and professors has become completely meaningless, since no one dares to state their opinion anymore. People hardly dare describe what they have in their lunch box.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“Heinrich Heine, who had once watched his own books burn, had written, “Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“I’m glad I’m no longer teaching, because nowadays the teachers are told what they must teach the children. All”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“It was a lamentable sight to look out over all the empty seats in a place that represented the cradle of wisdom.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“They’d screamed for change until their voices were hoarse, and they’d gotten the change they’d clamored for. But what happened when that change wasn’t for the better? He”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“He couldn’t help but notice the large birthmark stretching across one cheek, from her ear down to her chin.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“How could an Austrian be allowed to decide what was or was not German? Hitler’s”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“Don’t you see? Something’s wrong. People don’t ask questions anymore, and they take whatever’s written in the police report to be the indisputable truth.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“He who dares not to choose his path will end as the stair upon which the powerful tread.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“If you ask me, technocracy is the way forward. Let he who is capable lead. It won’t do to put responsibility in the hands of the people; they are too emotional, and one cannot steer a country with emotions.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“He who dares not to choose his path will end as the stair upon which the powerful tread.   Carl Scharnberg, Danish poet (1930–1995)”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“Everyone seemed to just accept what was happening. The eradication of the individual, the reduction of the people to a faceless gray mass shouting “heil” on command.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“If the citizenry is too intelligent, they’ll just burn their books.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“His experience was that people were divided into six groups, and everyone belonged to one of them, whether they realized it or not. There were the fanatics, the supporters, the opportunists, the fearful, the doubters, and the resisters. The final two categories were thinning in number, unfortunately. More and more of them would soon be categorized among the fearful or the detained resisters. He thought of a seventh group: the dead.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“He is happy, be he king or farmer, who finds peace in his home,”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior,”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“The cold made him impatient. As”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“no longer existed. Smolensk was no different. Its factories had been destroyed and the entire residential district leveled. The occasional chimney or church spire protruding here and there were the only reminders that a city had once stood there. The Russian soldiers—the very ones who had”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“evening”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“boulevard, its flags fluttering in the breeze.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“They didn’t understand that you had to be cynical to maintain your sanity amid the mad and pointless chaos.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.” But”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior,’” he”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“was the very core of his profession—a simplification—which”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“shoulder.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“happening. The eradication of the individual, the reduction of the people to a faceless gray mass shouting “heil” on command. It was as though everyone in Germany had become paralyzed. They’d screamed for change until their voices were hoarse, and they’d gotten the change they’d clamored for. But what happened when that change wasn’t for the better? He no longer recognized his country. And”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“His experience was that people were divided into six groups, and everyone belonged to one of them, whether they realized it or not. There were the fanatics, the supporters, the opportunists, the fearful, the doubters, and the resisters. The final two categories were thinning in number, unfortunately. More and more of them would soon be categorized among the fearful or the detained resisters. He thought of a seventh group: the dead. “Are”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“They’d screamed for change until their voices were hoarse, and they’d gotten the change they’d clamored for. But what happened when that change wasn’t for the better? He no longer recognized his country. And”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men

“toward the posh neighborhood along Harvestehuder Weg. Boastfully calling attention to their inhabitants’ wealth, the small mansions and luxury villas with their manicured lawns stood in stark contrast to the deplorable conditions in the workers’ district on Hammerbrookstrasse.”
― Jesper Bugge Kold, Winter Men