top of page
Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek

"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."

Standard 
 Customized
"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award."

More 

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from other mothers as bastards, that makes you a bigot and a germ on the face of earth. This is an unhealthy bias, even though in your personal mental universe it may provide you extreme comfort. This is exactly what we see in the religious fundamentalists."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light"

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

Author Name

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Assegid Habtewold

"As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!"

Author Name

Personal Development

More 

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist."

Men

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."

Freedom

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."

People

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak."

Music

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable."

Government

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."

Isolation

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds."

Society

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."

Parents

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."

Eternity

Quote_1.png
Elfriede Jelinek
"I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing."

Feelings

bottom of page