George Grosz | "In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time."

"In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time."

George Grosz, German Artist

Home, Time, War, End

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"In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time."

"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

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"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."

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"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

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"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."

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"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

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"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."

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"It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home."

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"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

Author Name

Personal Development

"The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

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"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated."

Army

"In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time."

Home

"It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture."

Cultural

"I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them."

Being

"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."

Absence

"I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self."

Trust

"I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either."

War

"What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?"

War

"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit."

Business

"I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter."

War

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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Everything I'd been longing to get away from, true, but not through destruction. I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will."

Author Name

Personal Development

"I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns."

Author Name

Personal Development

"We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets."

Author Name

Personal Development

"My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home."

Author Name

Personal Development

"It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."

Author Name

Personal Development

"The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less."

Author Name

Personal Development

"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Author Name

Personal Development

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"Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated."

Army

"In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time."

Home

"It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture."

Cultural

"I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them."

Being

"In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while."

Absence

"I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self."

Trust

"I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either."

War

"What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated at the start and to which I never warmed as it proceeded?"

War

"The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit."

Business

"I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter."

War