Pam Neale

“Besides, my confidence that every person can be cured of his or her false beliefs through evidence has meanwhile significantly diminished. Oh, Mr. Brecht, I often think, people can really see an apple fall to the ground an simultaneously believe it when someone claims: It isn't falling. And there it is still the matter of more obvious natural laws!”
― Christa Wolf, Ein Tag im Jahr

“The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or other, splits at the joints?”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

“Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.”
― Christa Wolf, City of Angels or Overcoat of Dr. Freud

“To become oneself, with all one's strength.
Difficult.
A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot-and the world can look a different place. And then where is this "self"?”
― Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T.