Todesfuge Quotes & Sayings

Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals. — Dalai Lama

This definition was not just limited to establishing a method for exploring the specificity of one human group in relation to another. It also desired, from the outset, to renounce the prejudiced and racist ethnography about which the West has never tired of berating itself. The intention could not have been loftier, but the well-known saying tells us that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Because — Mario Vargas-Llosa

And he wrote the single most famous poem about the death camps, "Todesfuge" (Death Fugue). — Clive James

Every baby's the only in my observation of mothers. — Alexandra Ripley

In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

I'm going to fight my way out, I'm going to take all my equipment and all my wounded and as many dead as I can. If we can't get out this way, this Division will never fight as a unit again. — Oliver P. Smith

For example, it takes the entire planet Earth to attract a feather to the floor, but we can counteract Earth's gravity by lifting the feather with a finger. The action of our finger can counteract the gravity of an entire planet that weighs over six trillion trillion kilograms. — Michio Kaku

The whole thing resolves itself into our mental ability to control our thought. The man who can do this can have what he wants, can do what he wishes and becomes what he wills ... — Ernest Holmes

[A]ll the methods in the search for truth should be looked on as means rather than as ends in themselves or as absolute truth. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested in anything in between. — Francois Truffaut

What is the point of me?
Either to change a world-many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every deed a consequence, and in every love and every sorrow truth-or nothing at all. — Claire North

They all stared at the television. Twenty male shapeshifters quietly watching The Howling. — Shelly Laurenston

By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it. — V.S. Carnes

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. — John Berger