“Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people’s rights as well as their ambitions.”
― Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941-1945
― Winston S. Churchill: Road to Victory, 1941-1945
“Er war so einfach und untadelig wie seine Konduitenliste, und nur der Zorn, der ihn manchmal ergriff, hätte einen Kenner der Menschen ahnen lassen, daß auch in der Seele des Hauptmanns Trotta die nächtlichen Abgründe dämmerten, in denen die Stürme schlafen und die unbekannten Stimmen namenloser Ahnen.”
― The Radetzky March
― The Radetzky March
“[O]ur relationship with nature has become warped. You see, nature has acquired a purpose where we are concerned. Its task is to amuse us. It no longer exists for its own sake.”
― What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
― What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“Von der Humanität durch Nationalität zur Bestialität.”
― The Radetzky March
― The Radetzky March
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