"We already have the statistics for the future:……" — Gunter Grass

"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place."

— Gunter Grass

60 Quotes by Gunter Grass

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Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to…
Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that…
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this…
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all…
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a…
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed…
I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did…
I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's…
It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things…

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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our… — Gerald Durrell
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from… — Yasmina Khadra
The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten… — Shimon Peres
We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God… — Pope Francis
Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of… — Rajiv Shah
Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification — Roger Scruton
Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live,… — Amy Goodman
It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance… — Stephanie Mills

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