Thomas Manfred Pflanz

“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”

“How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.”

“The world is a globe - the further you sail, the closer to home you are.”

“The goddess Ninsun, Gilgamesh’s mother,
Explained her understanding of the dream -
A man was coming to him, a new brother,
To love and protect Gilgamesh, and seem
More of a soul-mate than a friend, another
Entity that, parted in the stream
At birth, had found its way back to meet
Itself again - and make itself complete.”

“War began — that is, an event took place contrary to human reason and to the whole of human nature.”

“It is much easier for men to act than to refrain from acting. We will continue to do good and to do evil.”

“All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.”

“She’s let religion go to her head, but we all know that religion is for the heart, not for the head.”

“‘The lords of war despise scholars and schoolmasters,’ said Medra. ‘I think they fear them too,’ said Veil.”

“Our religion is the poetry in which we believe.”

“If man has no bigger world than was known 6,000 years ago he can be religious, but it is a terrible thing to say that one cannot be religious when by aid of science he has come to see the infinities of space.”

“The world should have protected you, but you have been asked to protect it. What an honor. What an injustice.”