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„Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.“
„Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.“
„Art and religion would not be able to stop the war any more than they would be able to stop tomorrow.“
„Only the dead have seen the end of war.“
„The loneliness does not come from the War. The War did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the War.“
„I wanted to get away from the physical act of painting… For me the title (‘Fresh Widow’, 1920), with inscription under: ‘Fresh Widow Copyright Rose Sélavy, 1920’, [probably referring to all the widows because of the many killings of soldiers in World War, 1. which ended in 1918] was very important… I was interested in ideas – not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.“
„The Dada movement was an anti-movement which corresponded to a need born of the first World War. Although neither literary nor pictorial in essence, Dada found its exponents in painters and writers scattered all over the world. Max Ernst’s activities in Cologne in 1917 made him the foremost representative of the Dada painters. Between 1919 and 1921 his paintings, drawings and collages depicting the world of the subconscious were already a foretaste of Surrealism… In fact his previous achievements had certainly influenced, to a great extent, the literary Surrealist exploration of the subconscious.“
„Jungs! Opfert euch nicht! Der krieg ist doch scheiße, Hitler ist ein idiot! (message in a pro-allied propaganda broadcast) Translation: Boy! Do not sacrifice yourself! The war is but shit, Hitler is an idiot!“
„East? They wouldn’t know the bloody East if they saw it. Not if you was to hand it to them on a plate would they know it was the East. That’s where the East is, there.’ He waved his hand wildly into the black night. ‘Out there, west. You wasn’t there, so you wouldn’t know. Now I was. Palestine Police from the end of the war till we packed up. That was the East. You was in India, and that’s not the East any more than this is. So you know nothing about it either. So you needn’t be talking.“
„And then there were the sick to be transported back to Cairo (where already the holy war might have spread like the bubonic and smiling beards above gelder’s knives be waiting at the gates), and how in the name of filthy castrating Allah did you march men back through the Sinai who couldn’t even sit a mule? He reviewed the sweating patients in gloom, all distorted with bubos…“
„We can no longer expect the one big book, the single achievement, to be an author’s claim to posterity’s regard. We shall be more inclined to assess the stature of a novelist by his ability to create what the French call an oeuvre, to present fragments of an individual vision in book after book, to build, if not a War and Peace or Ulysses, at least a shelf.“
„A heavy task, but there was light reliefIn the Germanic ambience, boisterous, brash,Torchlit parades and pogroms, guttural griefIn emigration queues, the smash and crashOf pawnshop windows by insentient beefIn uniform, the gush of beer, the splashOf schnapps, the joy of being drunk and Aryan,Though Hitler was a teetotalitarian.Human pain meantBut little in the Gulf War’s visual grammar, aBig feast of death to feed the cinecamera“
„Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.“
„Unless a nation’s life faces peril, war is murder.“
„We did not win the war with prayers, but with the blood of our soldiers.“
„I’m the most sampled and stolen. What’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I’m never gonna release it. Don’t want a war with the rappers. If it wasn’t good, they wouldn’t steal it.“
„I don’t know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there’s a good English phrase for it — cold war.“
„It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.“
„We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.“
„We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative.“
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