Leopold Kohr quotes

Leopold Kohr quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.”
-- Leopold Kohr

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“Whenever something is wrong, something is too big.”
-- Leopold Kohr

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“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”
“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
“A divided heart loses both worlds.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”
“I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.”
“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”
“The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.”

Source : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House
“The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.”
“My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.”
“Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.”

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