Quotes About Erich

If he is superior then I would go home, for another day that is better.

The task of critique is not to denounce the ideals, but to show their transformation into ideologies, and to challenge the ideology in the name of the betrayed ideal

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine.

The small tool of death was like a dynamo of life.

I said no more and made off. It is no use quarrelling with excited maternal instincts. They have the moral support of the entire world behind them.

A line, a short line, stumbles off into the morning. Thirty two men.

I tell you it is the vilest business to use horses in the war.

What has Kantorek written to you?" Müller asks him. He laughs. "We are the Iron Youth." We all three smile bitterly, Kropp rails: he is glad that he can speak. Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk.

you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.

We are not youth any longer. We don't want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Space travelers in the gray mists of time? An inadmissible question to academic scientists. Anyone who asks questions like that ought to see a psychiatrist.

Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, by Charles Piazzi Smith, published in 1864,