Paul Scheller

“In harsh or melancholy epochs free men may always take comfort from the grand lesson of history, that tyrannies cannot last except among servile races. The years which seem endless to those who endure them are but a flick of mischance in the journey. New and natural hopes leap from the human heart as every spring revives the cultivated soil and rewards the faithful, patient husbandmen.”
― Winston S. Churchill, The New World

“And now, at the very height of corruption, when not a drop of conscience or shame remains in people, when insult and malice suffocate everyone, when lies have become so widespread it’s difficult not to lose your bearings, you’ve found the ‘boldness’ in yourself to present the bill to the disgraced Master.”
― Akram Aylisli, Stone Dreams: A Novel-Requiem

“Albert Camus believed that ‘a man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
― Geoff Dyer, Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room

“Inflation, unemployment, the political crises and, not least, the folly of lands abroad, had made the German people restless; a tremendous desire for order animated all circles of the German people, to whom order had always been more important than freedom and justice. And anyone who promised order – even Goethe said that disorder was more distasteful to him than even an injustice – could count on hundreds of thousands of supporters from the start.”
― Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday