#inheritance

I spent my childhood and youth on the outskirts of the Alps, in a region that was largely spared the immediate effects of the so-called hostilities. At the end of the war I was just one year old, so I can hardly have any impressions of that period of destruction based on personal experience. Yet to this day, when I see photographs or documentary films dating from the war I feel as if I were its child, so to speak, as if those horrors I did not experience cast a shadow over me … I see pictures merging before my mind’s eye—paths through the fields, river meadows, and mountain pastures mingling with images of destruction—and oddly enough, it is the latter, not the now entirely unreal idylls of my early childhood, that make me feel rather as if I were coming home… ↗

— W.G. Sebald

#history #inheritance #war #dating

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#classes #everybody #everything #gets #granted

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#aggression #civilization #consequences #defend #even

Why?' - Nasuada 'You know why' - Murtagh ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#inheritance-cycle #love #murtagh #nasuada #love

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#brought #development #elements #inheritance #most

In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#been #fact #features #his #history

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #biological #human #inheritance #interests

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#got #hold #honor #inheritance #know

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#aside #cannot #exhaust #experiences #inheritance

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#him #inheritance #know #man #never