Kurt Tucholsky

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• Da gab es vier Jahre lang ganze Quadratmeilen Landes, auf denen war der Mord obligatorisch, während er eine halbe Stunde davon entfernt ebenso streng verboten war. Sagte ich: Mord? Natürlich Mord. Soldaten sind Mörder.
  • Translated: For four years, there were whole square miles of land where murder was obligatory, while it was strictly forbidden half an hour away. Did I say: murder? Of course murder. Soldiers are murderers.
  • From Der bewachte Kriegsschauplatz, published 1931 under the pseudonym Ignaz Wrobel; compare http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldaten_sind_M%C3%B6rder.

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• If elections changed anything, they would be forbidden.
• The cruelty of most people is lack of imagination, their brutality is ignorance.
• The opposite of "good" is "good intention"
• I do not want to think about the Church; there is no use discussing with a religion if its point of view has been protected by the penal law. (about the fact that in Germany critics of the two major churches are usually prosecuted based on a law which prohibits this in public)