Gleichschaltung Quotes & Sayings

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.
Miss Marple — Agatha Christie

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away. — Tom Waits

Bliss means you have reached to the very innermost core of your being. It belongs to the ultimate depth of your being where even the ego is no more, where only silence prevails; you have disappeared. In joy you exist a little bit, but in bliss you are not. Th ego has dissolved; it is a state of nonbeing. — Osho

Already even politics ceases to be the business of a gentleman ; and it is possible that one day it may be found to be so vulgar as to be brought, like all party literature and daily literature, under the rubric : Prostitution of the intellect. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Just because I had the resources and a good idea didn't mean the timing was right. I was operating on Nick's time instead of God's. When — Nick Vujicic

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around. — E.W. Howe

A page of a book is like a human face. Look at a page by Hemingway and compare it with Sterne and Marcel Proust. They are different typographical beings. But force upon them those ragged edges, and the influence of the author's style on the physical aspect of the page, their typographical physiognomy will disappear. No, unjustified setting is a sort of gleichschaltung [enforced conformity] through diversity, a very phoney diversity. Produced methodically by chance. For the comfort of the keyboard, and not for the comfort of the eye. — Stefan Themerson

We live in Secret. We live in Silence. And we live Forever ... — Luis Marques

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers. — Merlin Olsen

The kingdom of this world will come closer into becoming the kingdom of the world if we all take possession of our spheres — Sunday Adelaja

Spurring reform in a nation also requires homogeneity in thought. People should generally agree on what a country's top problems are and the solutions needed for them. — Chetan Bhagat

The square root of 69 is 8(ate) som' — Drake

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs. — Betty Shabazz

Is there anything else you need to tell me?"
Every time I look at you, I have to put a leash on myself. "No. — Ilona Andrews

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. — David Borenstein

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. — John Charles Polanyi