Kurt Huber Quotes

#1. In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.

Michael Leunig

#2. There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Kurt Huber

#3. There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

Michael Ignatieff

#4. She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive.

Alice Walker

#5. The memory of having sat at someone's feet will later make you want to trample him underfoot.

Soseki Natsume

#6. I hope to God that the inner strength that will vindicate my deeds will in good time spring forth from my own people. I have done as I had to on the prompting of my inner voice.

Kurt Huber

#7. What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.

Kurt Huber

#8. As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

Kurt Huber

#9. A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Kurt Huber

#10. ...Cupid, who never shoots with a surer aim than through the steam of boarding-house hash, sniped him where he sat.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

Aldo Leopold

#12. HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

Annie Lennox

#13. You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

Kurt Huber