„This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that’s on fire.“

— Chuck Palahniuk

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„I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.“
— Terry Pratchett
„for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.“
— Jodi Picoult
„Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire. […] Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.“
— Greta Thunberg
„We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.“
— Tennessee Williams