#eol

Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the army. After a brief period of training at a base in Wüzburg, I arrived at the front, which by that time had already crossed the Rhine into Germany. There were well over a hundred in my company, all of whom were very young. One evening the company commander sent me with a message to battalion headquarters. I wandered all night long through destroyed, burning villages and farms, and when in the morning I returned to my company I found only the dead, nothing but dead, overrun by a combined bomber and tank assault. I could see only dead and empty faces, where the day before I had shared childhood fears and youthful laughter. I remember nothing but a wordless cry. Thus I see myself to this very day, and behind this memory all my childhood dreams crumble away. ↗

— Johann Baptist Metz

#theology #world-war-ii #dreams

There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#archaeology #collector #earliest #example #finding

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#attractive #because #committed #how #i

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#anything #black #cat #cellar #dark

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#belly #laugh #man #theology

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#anonymous #bishop #determine #directly #local

I am proud to stand with the millions of women and men who recognize that our government should legislate according to the reality of our lives - not for ideology. ↗

— Sandra Fluke

#am #government #i #i am #ideology

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture. ↗

— Dario Fo

#connotations #culture #i #i see #ideology

The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#chinese #chinese government #draw #force #government

I am not going to stop speaking out on behalf of policies that I think are right - regardless of ideology, party or political expediency. ↗

— Harold Ford

#behalf #expediency #going #i #i am