> IN THE PHILOLOGIST'S GARDEN

QUOTES

1. ’Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: they are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all.' P. 14, LTI.

2. '[…] language which writes and thinks for you.' P. 14, LTI.

3.' […] what do I know? The question mark the most important of all punctuation marks. A position in direct opposition to National Socialist intransigence and self-confidence [...].' P. 65, LTI.

4. 'Every language able to assert itself freely fulfils all human needs, it serves reason as well as emotion, it is communication and conversation, soliloquy and prayer, plea, command and invocation. The LTI only serves the cause of invocation [...].' P. 20, LTI.

5. 'But language does not simply write and think for me, it also increasingly dictates my feelings and governs my entire spiritual being the more unquestioningly and unconsciously I abandon myself to it.' P. 14, LTI.

6. 'A stable minority lives in the belief that the media are controlled by secret powers.' Der Spiegel, No.2, 9 January 2016.

7. 'You have to be grateful for witnesses who have experienced bad things but who are still able to distinguish one thing from another [...].' Der Spiegel, No.2, 9 January 2016.

8. '[…] language which writes and thinks for you.' P. 14, LTI.

9. 'Where are you from? When are you going back?’

10. 'Do you want more or fewer Moroccans in this city and in this country?' Geert Wilders wants to throw out Moroccans, Sarah Maria Brech, The Hague, 20 March 2014, Welt N24.

11. 'Persistence is a virtue.' Ikea catalogue 2017.

12. 'The white stag chases away the Jews [...].' P. 189 LTI

13. 'Language is more than blood!' (On national identity). P. 190 LTI

14. 'What did it have to do with the world in which I moved, and with me personally? I was so confident about being a German, a European, a twentieth-century man. Blood? Racial hatred? Not today, not here at the centre of Europe! And wars weren't to be expected any more either, not at the centre of Europe! … at most somewhere in the far reaches of the Balkans, in Asia, in Africa.' P. 191 LTI.

15. 'The people are sentimental.' P. 195, LTI.

16. '[…] completely pure, completely profound, I would almost say a completely […] German Romantic tradition', P. 197, LTI.

17. 'The presence or absence of the “eternal”.' P. 149, LTI.

18. '[...] human material', p.138, LTI.

19. '[…] unconditional obedience [...]', p. 141, LTI.

20. 'Germany, the “power which imposes order”, defends “Fortress Europe”.' P. 153, LTI.

21. '“The peoples of Europe ought to thank us on bended knees” for fighting to protect them, perhaps they don't even deserve it!' P. 153, LTI.

22. 'Greece is not going to get any more money if it does not do its homework [...].’

23. 'The basic provision of refugees is limited to the necessary. So they receive vaccinations as well as treatment for pain and acute ailments. Pregnant women, however, receive the full range of services provided by the local authorities.' Epoch times online, Anstieg der Krankenkassenbeiträge Viele Flüchtlinge haben ab Juni 2017 Anspruch auf Vollversorgung, Detlef Kossakowski, 21 September 2016.

24. 'I believe in him.' P. 111, LTI.

25. '[...] the Jewish-capitalist system of exploitation.' P. 164, LTI.

26. '“Cases such as these are not typical.” Verbal abuse through expressions such as “You Jewish pig” were said to be used “often completely without context or significance [...]”.' Frankfurter Algemeine, 15 April 2017, Antje Schmelcher.

27. 'Don't tell anyone that you're a Jew'. Http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/26681436.

28. 'This normalized hate of strangers is so deeply ingrained.' Http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/26681436.

29. Against homosexuals in former Russia
30. 'at some point the printed lie will get the better of me when it attacks from all sides and is queried by fewer and fewer around me and finally by no one at all.' P. 207, LTI.

31. 'The will to action spawns new verbs. They want to get rid of the Jews, so they entjuden {dejew}, they want to make sure all business life is in Aryan hands, so they arisieren {aryanize}, they want to re-establish the purity of their ancestral blood', P. 211, LTI.

32. 'and from now on, it is a cover-up of powerlessness [...].' P.

 

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