Georg Büchner Quote on Freedom and Risk
“The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.”
Georg Büchner
Author Archive for: Jan
Entries by Jan
Quote by Hannah Arendt on Truth and Lies
“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world – and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end – is being destroyed.”
Hannah Arendt
Eisenhower Quote on Freedom and Respect
“To be true to one’s own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.”
Eisenhower
Quote by Hannah Arendt on Authority and Laughter
“The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.”
Hannah Arendt
Quote by Eisenhower on Inflation and Social Injustice
“Inflation is not a Robin Hood, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Rather, it deals most cruelly with those who can least protect themselves. It strikes hardest those millions of our citizens whose incomes do not quickly rise with the cost of living. When prices soar, the pensioner and the widow see their security undermined, the man of thrift sees his savings melt away; the white collar worker, the minister, and the teacher see their standards of living dragged down.”
Eisenhower
Quote by Eisenhower on Presidential Candidates
“Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.”
Eisenhower
Quote by Markus Krall on Meetings and Investigations
“We went out to dinner several times. The investigators knew about two meetings. I provided them with my calendars.”
Markus Krall
Provocative Question by Markus Krall on Ex-Partners
“Question to the divorced in this group: Which of you would classify your ex as a premium partner?”
Markus Krall
Haris Silajdžić on the Causes of the Tragedy in Bosnia
“The origins of this horrific human tragedy lay not in Bosnia itself, but in the policies conducted by demagogues in her neighboring countries, especially the Milošević regime in Belgrade – policies that led to the violent dissolution of former Yugoslavia and the near-destruction of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its most plural republic.”
Haris Silajdžić
Quote by Haris Silajdžić on Auschwitz, Arms Embargo, and Historical Responsibility
“The Allies did not bomb the railway tracks leading to Auschwitz, because they feared it would arouse the wrath of the Nazis; six million people died. In our case, an arms embargo led to “only” a quarter of a million deaths – an embargo that penalized only the victims, for the aggressors already had more arms than they could handle.”
Haris Silajdžić