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Ladies and gentlemen, I take office at a time in which the world is living in extreme contradictions. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#extreme #gentlemen #i #ladies #living

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#fatherland #germany #here #live #our

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing. ↗

— Anna Held

#given #happy #i #leads #nothing

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#even #freedom #individual #more #only

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#communist #conservative #controlled #criteria #democrat

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#easy #handicap #lives #making #their

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#civilized #cured #endure #even #food

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#each #end #except #good #good wife

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#advocated #both #complete #destructiveness #disputes

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#cause #conditions #just #motive #necessary