„And the poor in their fireless lodgings, dropping the sheetsOf the evening paper: “Our day is our loss, O show usHistory the operator, theOrganiser, Time the refreshing river.” And the nations combine each cry, invoking the lifeThat shapes the individual belly and ordersThe private nocturnal terror:”Did you not found the city state of the sponge,”Raise the vast military empires of the sharkAnd the tiger, establish the robin’s plucky canton?Intervene. Descend as a dove orA furious papa or a mild engineer, but descend.”“

— W. H. Auden

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„And the poor in their fireless lodgings, dropping the sheetsOf the evening paper: "Our day is our loss, O show usHistory the operator, theOrganiser, Time the refreshing river."“
— W. H. Auden
„We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill,cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest,cursed be all the bread, the wine, the meat which day by daydescends deep in the entrails of the exploited manand turns not into freedom's cry, the murderer's ruthless knife!“
— Nikos Kazantzakis