Kurt Tucholsky
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Kurt Tucholsky (9 January 1890 – 21 December 1935) was a German journalist, satirist and song text writer.
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- Da gab es vier Jahre lang ganze Quadratmeilen Landes, auf denen war der Mord obligatorisch, während er eine halbe Stunde davon entfernt ebenso streng verboten war. Sagte ich: Mord? Natürlich Mord. Soldaten sind Mörder.
- Translated: For four years, there were whole square miles of land where murder was obligatory, while it was strictly forbidden half an hour away. Did I say: murder? Of course murder. Soldiers are murderers.
- From Der bewachte Kriegsschauplatz, published 1931 under the pseudonym Ignaz Wrobel; compare [1].
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- If elections changed anything, they would be forbidden.
- The cruelty of most people is lack of imagination, their brutality is ignorance.
- The opposite of "good" is "good intention"
- I do not want to think about the Church; there is no use discussing with a religion if its point of view has been protected by the penal law. (about the fact that in Germany critics of the two major churches are usually prosecuted based on a law which prohibits this in public)
