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"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
"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
"The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity."
War
"I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it."
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 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
"Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind."
Peace
"I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either."
War
"It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture."
Cultural
"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
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."
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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."
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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."
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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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