Famous quotes containing the word steiner:
“Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“To many men ... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day’s work at Auschwitz in the morning.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)