Hermann Hesse Quotes

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

Hermann Hesse

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• Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Life
  • Think
  • Violence

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• BJP is the mothership of violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Violence

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Violence
  • Organization

• In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • City
  • Violence

• Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Work
  • Live
  • Free

• I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence
  • Self
  • Intelligence

• I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Violence

• I've been trying to understand conflict and violence ever since I was a kid. You know. There were a few things that happened even on my block - the Black Panthers used to be right around the corner from where we were.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Violence

• Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Violence
  • Horror
  • Panic

• Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Always
  • Violence
  • Well

• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Person
  • Rule
  • Conscience

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Court

• Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Conscience
  • Self-Esteem

• I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• My people have been sucked into the violence because some feel they have to retaliate, and some feel they have to protect themselves.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Violence
  • Feel

• You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

  

  Crispin Glover
  • World
  • Good
  • Job

• If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business.

  

  David Prosser, Jr.
  • Mean
  • Sometimes
  • Permit

• I'm into real food, and that includes real butter.

  

  Arden Myrin
  • Real
  • Food

• The Germans always had difficulties with their identity. Either it was too much and too loud, or it was hidden and too subservient. The French always had a healthy self-confidence. When they spoke of a 'grande nation' it was not dangerous. De Gaulle could say on Martinique: 'Behind me is the ocean. In front of me is France'.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Confidence
  • Identity
  • Ocean

• I've been married three times, but I'll never forget my first trip as a young man, on my honeymoon, with my new wife.

  

  Joe Pesci
  • Wife

• Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Violence
  • Conscience
  • Totalitarianism