Philip Pullman Quotes

“Fritz had to stop himself from interrupting when Karl spoke about the difficulty of working. Stories are just as hard as clocks to put together, and they can go wrong just as easily--as we shall soon see with Fritz's own story in a page or two. Still, Fritz was an optimist, and Karl was a pessimist, and that makes all the difference in the world.”

“With an evermore increase of industrialisation machine stops being merely a tool, develops a life of its own and imposes its rhythm onto human. Operating it he moves mechanically, becomes part of the machine.”

“These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.”

“The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.”

“In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.”

“I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.”

“The Diet was dissolved by a Reich Government decree.”

“I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.”

“I was elected to the Diet in the same way as at every parliamentary election.”

“The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.”