Quotes from Hugo Ball

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.

Punctuality can go to the devil.

It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

And if you acknowledged cleanliness,oder, and the law, you also had to acknowledge the police.

The artist's secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.

No such thing as humanity without flaws.

Everything is functioning; only man himself is not any longer.

Da li bi ?ovjek trebao tetovirati srce na ?elo? Tada bi cijeli svijet vidio: srce mu je udarilo u glavu. A budu?i da bi to bilo srce boje tinte, modro poput umiranja, agonijsko, moglo bi se re?i i: smrt mu je udarila u glavu. Mi samo trebamo zapisati koliko duboko nas je pogodio užas.

I bear the signature of my homeland, and I feel surrounded by it everywhere I go.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?