This might be the end of the world. If Joe lost we were back in slavery and beyond help. It would all be true, the accusations tha...t we were lower types of human beings. Only a little higher than apes. True that we were stupid and ugly and lazy and dirty and, unlucky and worst of all, that God Himself hated us and ordained us to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, forever and ever, world without end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with his ...black wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America--rather, the United States--seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, f...eared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, overfriendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The schnuckle among the nations of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom al...l the world hath flattered, thou only hath cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In past years, the amount of money that has had to be been spent on armaments, great and small, instead of on productive industry ...and agriculture and the arts, has been a disgrace to all of us in every part of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaph...ysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would that the Boar without bristles had come from the West And had rooted the sun and moon and stars out of the sky... And lay in the darkness, grunting, and turning to his rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping thro...ugh everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »