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Quotes by German Authors
"In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve."
"The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit."
"You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged."
"Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit."
"One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly."
"I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave."
"I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me."
"Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare."
"Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth."
"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated."
"Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!"
"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
"God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received."
"Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions."
"I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting."
"I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe."
"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."
"In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other."
"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."
"What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others."
"An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this."
"One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them."
"Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth."
"The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism."
"If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on."
"The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong."
"When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit."
"The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith."
"The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?"
"The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary."
"Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man."
"Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was not yet invented. Precisely the contrary. The daily press and the telegraph, which in a moment spreads inventions over the whole earth, fabricate more myths (and the bourgeois cattle believe and enlarge upon them) in one day than could have formerly been done in a century."
"The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no morning of his life had he ever been in good spirits nor done any good before midday, nor ever had a happy idea, nor devised any pleasure for himself or others. By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive active and sometimes, aglow with joy."
"But it is a fact that within Jewry there exists a sect which engaged in these murders."
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