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“Wollte er die Besserung der Zustände? Er wollte die Besserung der Menschen. Was war ihm jenes Ziel ohne diesen Weg dahin? Er wünschte jedem Menschen pro Tag zehn Hühner in den Topf, er wünschte jedem sein Wasserklosett mit Lautsprecher, er wünschte jedem sieben Automobile, für jeden Tag der Woche eines. Aber was war damit erreicht, wenn damit nichts anderes erreicht wurde? Wollte man ihm etwa weismachen, der Mensch würde gut, wenn es ihm gutging? Dann müssten ja die Beherrscher der Ölfelder und der Kohlegruben wahre Engel sein!”
― Fabian: die Geschichte eines Moralisten
― Fabian: die Geschichte eines Moralisten
“Lesen ist kein Akt der Denunziation. Lesen heißt, sich in Beziehung zu setzen zu sprachlich verfassten Welten, die uns nicht gleichgültig lassen. Kritisch zu lesen heißt, mit dem Eintritt in diese Sprachwelten unsere intellektuelle Komfortzone zu verlassen.”
― Aus dem Nebel des Krieges: Die Gegenwart der Ukraine
― Aus dem Nebel des Krieges: Die Gegenwart der Ukraine
“If a person truly has the ability to love, then he can never monopolize his beloved. And neither can his beloved monopolize him. The more he spreads his love, the more he adores his one and only true love. When love spreads, it does not diminish.”
― Madonna in a Fur Coat
― Madonna in a Fur Coat
“But what I hate most is women always having to be passive … Why? Why are we always the ones running away and you are the ones chasing after us? Why is it always that we surrender and you take the spoils? Why is it that even in the way you beg, there is dominance, and pity in the way we refuse?”
― Kürk Mantolu Madonna
― Kürk Mantolu Madonna
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Fahrenheit 451
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Fahrenheit 451
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