Gauleiter Quotes & Sayings

Note for a Textbook

The question is never answered, never resolved,
The circle of love and anger never squared,
The stubborn instinct not translated yet
In decimals, accurate and predictable
In union dues or payroll cuts or blood...

Always a symbol lost in the lovely theorem,
A fraction that will not fit in the sum of the system,
A jutting thrust in the graph of the commissar's forecast,
A troublesome blank in gauleiter's careful accounting,
An awkward hitch in the plans of the second vice-president.

The answers worked on the slate are never the same,
And the answers proved in the back of the book are wrong. — Charles Bruce

Each day we take another step to hell,
Descending through the stench, unhorrified — Charles Baudelaire

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches. — Henry David Thoreau

One of the best things in life is privilege to sit back, relax and look forward to a fresh way to perceive the world around you. — Chukwuka Amu

Can I tell you something ... ? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future. — Brad Meltzer

Then we all sat around; we were supposed to be awed. I was brattishly unawed. — Sandra Newman