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Quotes About Johann

Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we walked down the aisle, they played Taco Bell's Canyon," Quinn says knowingly. (Named for its German composer, Johann TacoBell.)
~ Michael Lewis
Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.
~ Johann Johannsson
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
~ Johann Most
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hoffendahl is, in the effect he has upon others, not unlike what is told of Bakunin himself in his greatest days, when he could enthrall with his passion even those who could not understand the language he spoke in. But it is possible that James also had the famous Johann Most in mind. Most figured in the London press in 1881 when he was tried because his newspaper, Freiheit, exulted in the assassination of the Czar.
~ Lionel Trilling