simple wahrheiten

Kleine Frauen können auch große Männer sein.

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:21:48 +0200

Kleine Frauen können auch große Männer sein.

"War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:45:34 +0200

“War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.”

- Robert Fisk “The Great War for Civilization”

"“There must never again be and there will never again be a November 1918 in Germany,” was his first..."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:48:40 +0200

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“There must never again be and there will never again be a November 1918 in Germany,” was his first political resolution after a great many political ponderings and speculations. It was the first specific objective the young private politician set himself and incidentally the only one he truly accomplished. There was certainly no November 1918 in the Second World War—neither a timely termination of a lost war nor a revolution. Hitler prevented both.

Let us be clear about what this “never again a November 1918” implied. It implied quite a lot. First of all the determination to make impossible any future revolution in a situation analogous to November 1918. Secondly—since otherwise the first point would be left in the air—the determination to bring about once more a similar situation. And this implied, thirdly, the resumption of the war that was lost or believed to be lost. Fourthly, the war had to be resumed on the basis of a domestic constitution in which there were no potentially revolutionary forces. From here it was not far to the fifth point, the abolition of all Left-wing parties, and indeed why not, while one was about it, of all parties. Since, however, one could not abolish the people behind the Left-wing parties, the workers, they would have to be politically won over to nationalism, and this implied, sixth, that one had to offer them socialism, or at least a kind of socialism, in fact National Socialism. Seventh, their former faith, Marxism, had to be uprooted and that meant—eighth—the physical annihilation of the Marxist politicians and intellectuals who, fortunately, included quite a lot of Jews so that—ninth, and Hitler’s oldest wish—one could also, at the same time, exterminate all the Jews.

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- Sebastian Haffner, “The Meaning of Hitler”

"On Jubilee Street there was a girl named Bee She had a history but she had no past When they shut..."

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:15:25 +0100

“On Jubilee Street there was a girl named Bee
She had a history but she had no past
When they shut her down the Russians moved in
Now I’m too scared to even walk on past
She used to say all those good people down on Jubilee Street
They ought to practise what they preach”

- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, “Jubilee Street”

"Ideen, die die Welt entvölkern."

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:57:34 +0100

“Ideen, die die Welt entvölkern.”

- Saul Bellow, “Herzog”

"Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being &..."

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:55:41 +0100

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”

- Søren Kierkegaard

"In einem See von Blut und Schmerz, abgemagert vor Angst und dünn vor Verantwortung, war ich trotzdem..."

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:46:26 +0100

“In einem See von Blut und Schmerz, abgemagert vor Angst und dünn vor Verantwortung, war ich trotzdem auf seltsam ferne Art glücklich.”

- Ernst Augustin, SZ-Magazin, 1.3.2012

Buzz Aldrin

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:46:59 +0100

Buzz Aldrin

"Wenn ich den Verstand verloren habe, soll’s mir auch recht sein, dachte Moses Herzog."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 08:40:06 +0100

“Wenn ich den Verstand verloren habe, soll’s mir auch recht sein, dachte Moses Herzog.”

- Saul Bellow, “Herzog”, erster Satz

"Power is a lot like real estate. It is all about location, location, location. The closer you are to..."

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:25:34 +0100

“Power is a lot like real estate. It is all about location, location, location. The closer you are to the source the higher your property value.”

- “House of Cards” S01 E01

"Muawiya personified ‘hilm’, the wisdom and patience of the Arab sheikh: “I apply not my..."

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:24:00 +0100

““Muawiya personified ‘hilm’, the wisdom and patience of the Arab sheikh: “I apply not my sword when my lash suffices nor my lash when my tongue suffices. And even if but one hair is binding me to my fellow men, I don’t let it break. When they pull, I loosen, if they loosen I pull.””

- Simon Sebag Montefiore, “Jerusalem. The Biography”.

"Unpassende Vergleiche sind schlimmer als Hitler."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:29:03 +0100

““Unpassende Vergleiche sind schlimmer als Hitler.””

- Gerd Buurmann

Fuck MOMA. I have Tumblr.

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:22:38 +0100

Fuck MOMA. I have Tumblr.:

claytoncubitt:

“Similarly, MoMA and other museums once drew strict lines between insider and outsider because they were beset by accusations that modern art could be made by disturbed people and untrained artists. Thus “outsider art” had to be left out in the cold, out of fear. Those embattled borders are long gone; the wars were all won. Museums: I say it’s time for you to set aside these old chauvinisms. There are no more excuses. You’re on the wrong side of history. Your definitions of art are reductive and insular where they need to be inclusive and expansive. You’ve hit a wall. Change — or wither with your prejudices and die a slow death.” -Jerry Saltz (via)

You can follow me on Twitter too!

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:00:08 +0100

You can follow me on Twitter too!

"You have to make peace with your neighbours - not their government."

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:14:00 +0100

“You have to make peace with your neighbours - not their government.”

- Guy I interviewed today

"A commander or an officer sees a camera and becomes a diplomat, calculating every rubber bullet,..."

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:39:16 +0100

“A commander or an officer sees a camera and becomes a diplomat, calculating every rubber bullet, every step. It’s intolerable, we’re left utterly exposed. The cameras are our kryptonite.”

- An Israeli soldier serving in the West Bank

"Landscapes, in childhood’s dream, were so vast and silent. We looked backward through our memory for..."

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:59:08 +0100

“Landscapes, in childhood’s dream, were so vast and silent. We looked backward through our memory for the prototype upon which all men had walked, between walls, toward such an open square as that in front where the road seems to end.”

- T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) describing Wadi Rum

"Greeting me sternly, [Lloyd George] remarked that complaints of me were reaching him from Jews and..."

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:01:36 +0100

““Greeting me sternly, [Lloyd George] remarked that complaints of me were reaching him from Jews and Arabs alike. I answered that this was all too probable, imagining for a moment from his tone that he was leading up to my resignation. “Well”, he said as we sat down, “If either side stops complaining, you’ll be dismissed.””

- Sir Ronald Storr, britischer Gouverneur von Jerusalem in den 1920er Jahren

"Ich bin doch nicht auf der Wurstsuppe hergeschwommen!"

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:24:25 +0100

“Ich bin doch nicht auf der Wurstsuppe hergeschwommen!”

- Mein alter Deutschlehrer

"Wenn Sie ein Gedicht suchen, werden Sie scheitern. Ein Gedicht muss zu Ihnen kommen."

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:01:00 +0100

““Wenn Sie ein Gedicht suchen, werden Sie scheitern. Ein Gedicht muss zu Ihnen kommen.””

- Mein alter Deutschlehrer