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Us Quotes by Erich Maria Remarque
- The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the childlike cries of the wounded, and…
- Yes, that's the way they think, these hundred thousand Kantoreks! Iron Youth! Youth! We are none of us more than twenty years old. But young?…
- The war has ruined us for everything.
- The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and…
- Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what…
- The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A…
- We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but…
- We have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial. Only the facts are real and important to us. And good boots are…
- But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenades, of your bayonet, of your rifle;…
- For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of…
- Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
- The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us,…
- At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet…
- And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that…
- They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong