Don Dealga

“He's always lying and he never lies. His falseness is his truth - it sounds complicated, but actually it's quite simple. He believes everything and he believes nothing.”
― Klaus Mann, Mefisto

“his hired guns—lobbyists, think tanks, battalions of public relations people, and obsequious journalists”
― Peter S. Goodman, Davos Man

“Then, Wagner premiered his successful Der Ring des Nibelungen opera (often known simply as The Ring Cycle) and his visions, along with those of his costume designer Carl Emil Doepler, spread across the world. He mixed together an awesome but peculiar combination of Norse, Germanic, Bronze Age and Viking history with a massive dose of imagination and unleashed an army of Valkyries and ‘barbarians’ with horned and winged helmets that marched into our collective consciousness.”
― Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened

“Yes, I am beginning to be frightened in Berlin. Things are about to happen there that horrify me - and the most horrible part of it is that the people around me seem not to see the danger. They are struck with blindness.”
― Klaus Mann, Mephisto