#ss

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#did #elite #group #i #know

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#competition #considered #consumers #create #domestic

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#dissolves #information #networks #nothing #remains

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#charitable #code #enforcement #giving #integrity

President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#bypass #consent #constitutional #decision #incident

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom. ↗

— John Gray

#accept #blossom #chance #differences #love

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#abuse #any #borrower #fraud #informed

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ↗