peace is the enemy of memory
That’s a rater difficult question […]. You see, their word for “freedom” is the same as their word for “fighting”.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo, Seite 248, 1997
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyones fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo, Seite 177, 1997
It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad an cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact, that bad things happen because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo, Seite 177, 1997
If you only do what you can do, you’ll never be better than what you are.
Kung Fu Panda 3, 2016
Whoever had created humanity had left in a major designflaw. It was it’s tendency to bend at knees.
Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay, Seite 72, 1996
Der Kapitalismus […] ist nicht etwas, das uns von einer äußeren Kraft aufgezwungen wird. Er existiert nur, weil wir jeden Tag, nachdem wir aufgestanden sind, damit fortfahren, ihn zu erzeugen.
David Graeber, Bürokratie, Seite 110, 2015
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.
Doris Lessing
Denn nach seiner Meinung kam alles Unglück in der Welt von den vielen Lügen, den absichtlichen, aber auch den unabsichtlichen, die nur aus Eile oder Ungenauigkeit entstehen.
Michael Ende, Momo, Seite 36, 1973
You’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
Star Wars VI