Nazi Culture Quotes

#1. The Nazis hated culture itself, because it is essentially international and therefore subversive of nationalism. What they called Nazi culture was a local, perverted, nationalistic cult, by which a few major artists and many minor ones were honored for their Germanness, not their talent.

Christopher Isherwood

#2. What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consciousness. The only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately self-destructive.

Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer

#4. ...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#5. I did nothing wrong, and yet I have lost everything!

Erin Hunter

#6. You look at it [a photograph] and all around the real world is humming, buzzing and moving, and yet in this little frame there is stillness that looks like the world. That connection, that collision, that interfacing, is one of the most astonishing things we can experience.

Joel Meyerowitz

#7. In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

Richard Stallman

#8. The Social Engineers wet dream is to be able to surveil us in our sleep

Dean Cavanagh

#9. Fashion is really interesting to me, but I'm not a professional model, so I'm focusing my career on acting.

Rinko Kikuchi

#10. If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.

James Howard Kunstler

#11. The thing about music was that you never knew the shape of anyone's desire.

Richard Powers

#12. Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.

J.D. Salinger

#13. Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

Anouk Aimee