Enzensberger Hans Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually. — Megan Martha White

Who is to emerge from the flood if we go under in it? — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I have tried to suggest, utopia is not mainly about providing detailed blueprints for social reconstruction. Its concern with ends is about making us think about possible worlds. It is about inventing and imagining worlds for our contemplation and delight. It opens up our minds to the possibilities of the human condition. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

An ending to my story," he said. "My story's ended ten times already, and yet it never stops. The end keeps coming for me, and yet it takes everyone else. Orphans, friends, commanding officers, I outlast them all. — Adam Johnson

What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow? — Dashiell Hammett

I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist group took a consistently anti-Moscow line throughout the 'Cold War,' and was firm in its belief that that Soviet Union and its European empire could not last. Very few people believed that this was the case: The best known anti-Communist to advance the proposition was the great Robert Conquest, but he himself insists that part of the credit for such prescience goes to Orwell. More recently, a very exact prefiguration of the collapse of the USSR was offered by two German Marxists, one of them from the West (Hans Magnus Enzensberger) and one from the East (Rudolf Bahro, the accuracy of whose prediction was almost uncanny). I have never met an American conservative who has even heard of, let alone read, either of these authors. — Christopher Hitchens

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it. — Megan Fox

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death
these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow. — C.S. Lewis

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend. — Sarah Dessen

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! — Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger