„Will er über die Straßen gehen, die wie Pulsadern alle Teile Berlins durchkreuzen, so muss er sich vorsehen; sonst kann er leicht von einem dahinsausenden Automobil oder einer elektrischen Straßenbahn überfahren werden. Es wimmelt von Fuhrwerken der erdenklichsten Art. Aber die Automobile beginnen schon alle anderen zu überflügeln, und die Droschken fristen nur noch ein kümmerliches Dasein. Zwischen den schnellen, mit Elektrizität oder Benzin getriebenen Wagen trotten schwerfällige Omnibuspferde langsam dahin und kreuzen zwischen den kutschierenden und steuernden Menschen, die es alle so schrecklich eilig haben. Scheint es doch, als ob das Wohl und Wehe der Welt vom rechtzeitigen Ankommen jedes Einzelnen abhinge!“
„There is much less difference between a mystic faith in God and an atheist’s rational faith in mankind than between the former’s faith and that of a Calvinist whose faith in God is rooted in the conviction of his own powerlessness and in his fear of God’s power.“
– Erich Fromm (zit. nach Victor Gollancz, A Year of Grace)
„As the corpse approaches, the sky master blows his horn, and a fire of juniper twigs summons the vultures. The master and his rogyapa corpse-dissectors then open the body from the back. They remove the organs, amputate the limbs and cut the flesh into small pieces, which they lay nearby. The bones are pulverised with a rock. The master mixes their dust with yak butter or tsampa, roasted barley, and then rolls it into balls. Finally the skull too is smashed and becomes a morsel with its brains. One by one these are tossed on to a platform – the bones first, for they are the least appetising – and the vultures crowd in.“
„…and Mary married a Puddletown cobbler, John Antell, a man with radical views who had also taught himself Latin, Greek and Hebrew but could not put them to any use or organize his life in any satisfactory way.“
– Claire Tomalin (Thomas Hardy – The Time-Torn Man)
“ ‚Das Volk…‘ grinste der Alte, ‚das Volk… Dem Volk hat man damals Hörner aufgesetzt und setzt ihm heute Hörner auf. Der Unterscheid besteht lediglich darin, daß der Faschismus dem Volk eine einzige Fahne an seine Hörner hängt und daß die Demokratie es jedem erlaubt, sich selbst eine von der Farbe, die ihm gefällt, an seine eigenen Hörner zu hängen…'“
„Weder wird der Eidestreue Achtung finden, noch der Gerechte, noch der Redliche, sondern eher werden sie Frevler und Gewaltmenschen ehren. Das Recht liegt in den Fäusten, Rücksicht wird es nicht geben. Der Schurke schädigt den Ehrenmann mit krummen Worten und schwört einen Meineid. Neid wird alle, die elenden Menschen begleiten, lärmend, hämisch, Haß im Blick. Dann nun verlassen Anstand und Ehrgefühl die Menschen…“
„The loss of one’s national or professional identity in the pursuit of a love affair with a foreign country is always a mistake, I believe. There is something phoney about ‚going native‘ anywhere in the world. Equally, of course, it is better not to amaze the inhabitants of another country with Bermuda shorts or a bowler hat, nor was I tempted to do so.“
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