Famous quotes containing the words burning and/or corpses:
“How to attain sufficient clarity of thought to meet the terrifying issues now facing us, before it is too late, is ... important. Of one thing I feel reasonably sure: we cant stop to discuss whether the table has or hasnt legs when the house is burning down over our heads. Nor do the classics per se seem to furnish the kind of education which fits people to cope with a fast-changing civilization.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877?)
“You had to have seen the corpses lying there in front of the schoolthe men with their caps covering their facesto know the meaning of class hatred and the spirit of revenge.”
—Alfred Döblin (18781957)
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