Christa Wolf - To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses th

To prevent wars, people must criticize, in their own country, the abuses that occur in their own country. The role taboos play in the preparation for war. The number of shameful secrets keeps growing incessantly, boundlessly. How meaningless all censorship taboos become, and how meaningless the consequences for overstepping them, when your life is in danger.

- Christa Wolf

topic: Country, War, Play, Incessantly, Overstepping