“Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.” NeedsShouldMeanWarHumanityCultureLosesExistenceModernTerribleEuropeObviousSubstitutesOccasionalBarbarismRelapse Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence. (26th February)” MeanHas BeensUseLastsNationsViolenceEuropeReformCharmIncapablePersuasionFebruaryImpervious Author:Adolf Hitler
“Reincarnation contains a most comforting explanation of reality by means of which Indian thought surmounts difficulties which baffle the thinkers of Europe.” MeanRealityEuropeDifficultyIndianExplanationThinkerReincarnationComfortingIncarnation Author:Albert Schweitzer
“The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally.” IfsWorldNeedsMeanTwoCountryStatesWinningClassStageMovementTheoryEuropeWesternWorkersSuperiorsFranceCompareGermanyEtcGravityWorking ClassCentreTransfersTwo CountriesWestern Europe Author:Karl Marx
“The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.” LoveLooksMeanStillsEnoughProblemAmericaHateCoursesSexMoralMarriageToo MuchHonorPromiseSolutionsEuropeEternityEnglandDivorceIndifferenceContractsMultiplePenaltiesAdulteryDeath PenaltySeriousnessReally MeanSeemingSerialsAurasPolygamyNew England Author:Anthony Burgess
“I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.” WorldMeanImportantExampleEuropeTrackAlbumsStamps Author:Marc Almond