Society and the World

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

Not all that tempts your wand’ring eyes

To each his suff’rings, all are men,

Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,

Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne,

Forbad to wade through slaughter to a throne,

Ruin seize thee, ruthless King!

If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Never open the door to the least of evils, for many other, greater ones lurk outside.

The proletarian state must bring up thousands of excellent ‘mechanics of culture’, ‘engineers of the soul’.

This is Liberty-Hall, gentlemen.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,

How small, of all that human hearts endure,

How small, of all that human hearts endure,

And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

How wide the limits stand

A man he was to all the country dear,

How happy he who crowns in shades like these,

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,

Mehr Licht!

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast.

When we take people, thou wouldst say, merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved.