Schlagwort: Raum

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

Das wichtigste ist eine Sprache zu finden. Worte zu finden. Das heißt Räume zu finden. Räume für den Austausch – und das heißt im Grunde das wieder herzustellen, was diese Aufgabe zwei Jahrhunderte erfüllt hat und was man einmal Politik genannt hat.

Alain Bertho, Les raisons de la colère (via youtube), 2010