King Von Quotes

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

the activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of a dead King or an unborn God.

Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloak to whisk me off to foreign lands I should not trade it for the richest robes, nor for the mantle of a king.

. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.

Then the King of Arragon pushed old Utepandragun over his horse’s tail down on to the meadow – the King of Britain! – where he lay in a bed of flowers!

My father, my father, and dost thou not hear The words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear? 'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives; Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.

Wir unterhalten uns ein andermal darüber, wie so ein exzellenter Hauptmann einen solchen Froschhoden von einem Sohn zeugen kann.

How many kings are governed by their ministers — how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief? He, as it seems to me, who can see through the others, and possesses strength or skill enough to make their power or passions subservient to the execution of his own designs. January

Es sind die Träume von Mr. Munshun, Burnys engstem Freund und liebendem Herrn, einem Geschöpf endloser und perverser Freuden.

Markets mean patrons, buyers, consumers. There is under capitalism one way to wealth: to serve the consumers better and cheaper than other people do. But in the shop and factory, the owner—or in the corporations, the representative of the shareholders, the president—is the boss. The mastership is merely apparent and conditional. He is subject to the supremacy of the consumer. The consumer is king—the real boss—and the manufacturer is done for if he does not outstrip his competitors in best serving the consumers. It was this great economic transformation that changed the face of the world.

After the battle the king can do what he likes with my head, but during the battle will he please allow me to use it? [During the battle of Zorndorf in 1758 goaded by interference of Frederick the Great of Prussia]

We might well look for the day when, with wires or without, with or without the disturbance of other sounds, we should hear King Solomon speaking, or Walter von der Vogelweide. And all this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of radio, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities.

We might well look for the day when, with wires or without, with or without the disturbance of other sounds, we should hear King Solomon speaking, or Walter von der Vogelweide. And all this, I said, just as today was the case with the beginnings of wireless, would be of no more service to man than as an escape from himself and his true aims, and a means of surrounding himself with an ever closer mesh of distractions and useless activities.

Er hatte in Vietnam gekämpft und war mehrfach ausgezeichnet worden; er hatte erfolgreich längere Beziehungen zu einigen energischen Frauen vermieden; und jetzt sah er sich von seinem elfjährigen Neffen in die Enge getrieben.

Oy hatte Mühe, sich auf Jakes Schoß zu halten, und versprühte einen Mund voll Truthahn mit einem Wort, das er von Eddie gelernt hatte. Irene starrte den Bumbler mit großen, verblüfften Augen an. »Hat dieses Geschöpf eben fuck gesagt, junger Mann?

I would rather understand one cause than be King of Persia. —Democritus of Abdera If a faithful account was rendered of Man’s ideas upon Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word “gods” has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes, ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods … When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon … does he, in fact, do any thing more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe? —Paul Heinrich Dietrich, Baron von Holbach,    Système de la Nature, London, 1770 When

There is probably something good in every religion, the important thing is how you practice it. And this is when I found out that the most beautiful thing is to be able to live with a religion. Not just by displaying it and going to church and all, but by really being able to live some of these thoughts in your everyday life. This is a good thought. My problem right now is—and I just went to a Catholic service in connection with my daughter's something-or-another—and I got so damn annoyed by the fact that every text was about humility in relation to God. That's annoying, and I keep on being annoyed by it. Granted, the texts were written by people and not by God, but it's still so annoying. I don't see the meaning of you being humble just because you've been created by God and He has created all this. You can be humble toward life and toward other human beings and toward creativity and everything—and you are—but being humble toward the man who has created the whole circus? Of course, but you shouldn't have to prostrate yourself, and you do that in many religions—you crawl in the dust before these gods. Why? I can see why some king down here on earth might enjoy seeing people crawling before him, but if this guy is that great, then he shouldn't care whether I bow down before him or whether I play around with my dick at night—he shouldn't care a bit about anything like that. As long as I don't do anything that will harm his creation, as long as I don't kill, say, too many fish—well, he's OK with fish, they eat them in the Bible. But this thing about throwing yourself on the floor and exclaiming, "You're so great! You're so great!"—that's completely illogical. If you believe in him, then he's the greatest anyhow. You look at a tiny leaf and you'll get humble—everyone will—even some stupid redneck in an ugly car. You really have to be stupid not to be able to appreciate a thing like that—a little leaf is like looking into eternity. It's totally amazing! And you don't have to stand around in church every day proclaiming that you're a little sinner and worth nothing and he is everything. That's annoying. Sorry, I must have made my point by now.

All that is great and skilful exists with the minority. There have been ministers who have had both king and people against them, and have carried out their great plans alone. It is not to be imagined that reason can ever be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular; but reason always remains the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Wenn die Fakten sprechen, hört der kluge Mann zu.‹ Dreiundzwanzig Tote ergeben einen ganzen Berg von Fakten.

Er mochte ein König aller Könige oder ein Zerstörer von Welten sein, aber er begann sein Leben wie unzählige Säuglinge vor ihm: Er kreischte empört.

War es zu spät, der Gott von Allem zu werden? Vielleicht ja noch nicht. Was konnte es wohl schaden, es wenigstens zu versuchen.

Schließlich wurde das Land jenseits von Fedic auch nicht Discordia genannt, weil dort Touristenziele lagen

Für diese Art von Geld braucht man keinen Taschenrechner. Für diese Art von Geld würde man plötzlich Verwandte im Abwassersystem von Bombay entdecken.

Dieser gottverdammte Barkovitch, der auf einer hohen Oktanzahl von Hass läuft. Er läuft immer weiter und sieht so frisch aus wie eine Butterblume

Kommen Sie mir nicht noch einmal zu nahe mit Ihrem Schlachtermesser. Wenn das Ihre Vorstellung von Hilfe ist, dann will ich nichts damit zu tun haben.

„Fantasievolle Menschen haben eine klarere Vorstellung von ihrer Verletzlichkeit; fantasievolle Menschen wissen, dass alles verheerend schieflaufen kann, jederzeit

Des Weiteren hatten wir eine große Geschichte, von der wir zehren konnten (jede kurze Geschichte, die nicht lange zurückreicht, ist eine große Geschichte)

Sie dachte daran, wie unmerklich man von einem Menschen abhängig werden konnte, wie ein Süchtiger von einer Droge.

ich habe feststellen müssen, daß das Alter einen unangemessen hohen Tribut von den ach so hoch geschätzten Vorurteilen fordert.

Du hast immer nach Ärger gesucht, wenn er dir nicht von selbst über den Weg gelaufen ist

Wir haben gemeinsam unsere Seelen verkauft, Harold, aber von mir ist noch genug übrig, daß ich für meine den vollen Preis will.

Ruhig, Revolvermann, ruhig!, sagte Corts nicht ganz fröhliche Stimme in Rolands Kopf, worauf er seine Empfindungen resolut auf Armeslänge von sich stieß.

Nun, das ist unwichtig. Er ist schlauer, als sie denken. Sie sprechen von einem Mann-Wolf, aber sie denken immer nur an den Wolf, nicht an den Mann.

Dieses herzlose Lied des Sturmes spottet Gott und dem Licht — es kündet von schwarzem Winter und dunklem Eis.

Er war zwar nicht gerade verrückt, dieser Blick, aber Tian erschien er dennoch meilenweit von vernünftig entfernt.

Die Schuld von Welten hängt ihm wie ein verwesender Leichnam um den Hals.

Inzwischen war er von »verdammt verschroben« auf »so verrückt wie eine Scheißhausratte« vorgerückt.

Lebe in der Gegenwart; lass die Vergangenheit sich in ihrem Grab ausstrecken; halt den Kopf hoch und mach einen Bogen um die Schlammpfützen; erwarte von deinen Freunden keine Therapie.

Zu viele zittrige Hände hielten Feuerzeuge in die Nähe von zu vielen Zündschnüren. Dies war keine Welt für Revolvermänner. Wenn es je eine Zeit für sie gegeben hatte, so war sie vorbei.

The witch mania is shameful. How could we do it? How could we be so ignorant about ourselves and our weaknesses? How could it have happened in the most “advanced,” the most “civilized” nations then on Earth? Why was it resolutely supported by conservatives, monarchists, and religious fundamentalists? Why opposed by liberals, Quakers and followers of the Enlightenment? If we’re absolutely sure that our beliefs are right, and those of others wrong; that we are motivated by good, and others by evil; that the King of the Universe speaks to us, and not to adherents of very different faiths; that it is wicked to challenge conventional doctrines or to ask searching questions; that our main job is to believe and obey - then the witch mania will recur in its infinite variations down to the time of the last man. Note Friedrich von Spee’s very first point, and the implication that improved public understanding of superstition and skepticism might have helped to short-circuit the whole train of causality. If we fail to understand how it worked in the last round, we will not recognize it as it emerges in the next.

...und ich glaube, dass früher oder später jeder einmal diese Dunkelheit herausfordern will. Trotz des zerbrechlichen Körpers, in den irgendein Witzbold von Gott uns Menschen gesteckt hat.

Es waren die Sterne von Hassenden, und weil das so war, fühlte Harold sich berufen, heute nacht etwas auf sie zu wünschen. Sternenglanz, Sternenschein, laß den Wunsch erfüllet sein. Fallt alle tot um

Wahre Liebe ist langweilig, wie jede andere starke und süchtig machende Droge – sobald die Geschichte von Begegnung und Entdeckung erzählt ist, werden Küsse schnell schal und Zärtlichkeiten ermüdend.

Kann ich Armeen aus der Erde stampfen? Wächst mir ein Kornfeld in der flachen Hand? Reißt mich in Stücken, reißt das Herz mir aus, Und münzet es statt Goldes! Blut hab' ich Für euch, nicht Silber hab' ich, noch Soldaten!

Und darüber bewegten sich seine Augen ruhelos von einer Straßenseite zur anderen, blickten misstrauisch hinaus in eine Welt, die beherrscht wurde von unfähigen Autofahrern, blödsinnigen Fußgängern und allgemeinem Schwachsinn.

Marlen Zyla: Unterschreiben Sie einfach auf der gepunkteten Linie, Madam, und lassen Sie sich bitte durch diesen Hauch von Pech und Schwefel nicht stören; mir will es einfach nicht gelingen, den Geruch aus den Kleidern zu bekommen.

right,” he cried; “I am the King. Why should I attempt to conceal it?” “Why, indeed?” murmured Holmes. “Your Majesty had not spoken before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein,

Mr. Onfoenem got on every fucking nerve that I had. I couldn’t stand that Chicago mild sauce eating bitch. I was even more pissed that I let him make my pussy spit up using a fucking gun. What type of ghetto King Von ass shit was that? I wanted to kick my own ass because I actually liked the shit. His face was so close to my kitty that I knew for sure he was going to reach in and lick it. That mouth of his was remarkable and I knew the nigga was teasing me by not giving it to me last week.

Immer wieder empörte ihn die Art von Joggern (Radfahrer hatten die gleiche nervtötende Angewohnheit), offenbar automatisch davon auszugehen, dass ihre Verantwortung in dem Augenblick endete, in dem sie zu laufen begannen. Sie trainierten ja schließlich.

Er liebte den intensiven, leicht märchenhaften Geruch von Büchern, und manchmal schlenderte er an den Regalen für Erwachsene entlang, betrachtete Tausende von Büchern und malte sich aus, dass jedes eine Welt für sich war, von den verschiedensten Gestalten bevölkert.

Die Geschichte der Monstrositäten und des Grauens ist ein Korb, vollgepackt mit Problemen; wenn der Schriftsteller vorbei kommt, nimmt man einen von seinen imaginären Schrecken aus dem Korb und legt einen eigenen wirklichen dafür hinein - für eine Zeit lang jedenfalls ...

Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, who issued an extermination order (Vernichtungsbefehl): “Within the German boundaries every Herero, whether found with or without a rifle, with or without cattle, shall be shot. . . . “Signed The Great General of the Mighty Kaiser, von Trotha.

Seine Gedanken als Spinne dagegen waren gar keine richtigen Gedanken, zumindest nicht im menschlichen Sinn; sie waren finstere, brüllende Dinge, die aus irgendeinem inneren Sumpf aufzusteigen schienen. „Sie handelten von (FRESSEN) und (UMHERSTREIFEN) und (VERGEWALTIGEN) und (TÖTEN!)

Diese rationale Stimme hatte recht, Angst zu haben. Etwas in uns fühlt sich sehr zum Wahnsinn hingezogen. Jeder, der von einem hohen Gebäude in die Tiefe blickt, verspürt einen leichten morbiden Drang zu springen. Und jeder, der sich einmal eine geladene Pistole an die Schläfe gesetzt hat …

Gen. Helmuth von Moltke, Chief of the German General Staff[1] from 1857 until his retirement in 1888, often related a story to junior members of his staff that described the essence of the German system of command. Following a battle, Prince Frederick Karl took a major aside and proceeded to reprimand the young officer for a tactical mistake. The major responded that he was following an order issued to him from a superior officer, which constituted the word of the king himself. The prince responded in kind, “‘His Majesty made you a major because he believed you would know when not to obey his orders.’”[2]

Ich kenne dich«, sagte Eddie. »Ich habe eine Menge von deinesgleichen gesehen. Du bist nichts weiter als ein Narr, der mit einer Flagge in einer und einer Kanone in der anderen Hand ›vorwärts, ihr christliche Soldaten‹ singt. Ich will keine Ehre. Ich will nur ein Brathähnchen und einen Schuss. In dieser Reihenfolge.

French scientists feared that Paris was going to lose its status as a centre for innovative scientific thinking. At the Académie des Sciences, Humboldt said, the savants did little and what little they did often ended in quarrels. Even worse, the scholars had formed a secret committee to sanitize the library there – removing books that propounded liberal ideas like those written by Enlightenment thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire. When the childless Louis XVIII died in September 1824 his brother Charles X, the leader of the ultra-royalists, became king. All those who believed in liberty and in the values of the revolution knew that the intellectual climate could only become more repressive.

»Soll Wahrheit zwischen uns sein, wie zwischen zwei Männern? Nicht wie zwischen Freunden, sondern wie zwischen Ebenbürtigen? Das ist ein Angebot, das du selten erhalten wirst, Roland. Nur Ebenbürtige sagen die Wahrheit, nicht anders denke ich darüber. Freunde und Liebende lügen ohne Unterlass, weil sie in einem Netz von Rücksichten gefangen sind. Wie langweilig!

Als eine Flutwelle den Tempel von Baal vernichtet hat, sind die Malachiten zu dem Ergebnis gekommen, dass er doch kein so toller Gott ist. Aber Jesus macht schon seit zweitausend Jahren Mittagspause, und die Leute folgen nicht nur immer noch seiner Lehre, sondern sie leben und sterben in dem Glauben, daß er eines Tages zurückkehren und damit wieder alles beim alten sein wird

Der Verstand kann einem der beste Freund sein; er kann einen unterhalten, wenn es nichts zu lesen und nichts zu tun gibt. Aber er kann sich gegen einen wenden, wenn er zu lange ohne Sinneswahrnehmung bleibt. Er kann sich gegen einen wenden, was bedeutet, er wendet sich gegen sich selbst, verwüstet sich selbst, verzehrt sich vielleicht sogar selbst in einem unvorstellbaren Akt von Selbstkannibalismus.

Standen Sie jemals in einer Buchhandlung, haben sich verstohlen umgesehen und dann das Ende eines Buches von Agatha Christie aufgeschlagen, um zu sehen, wer es getan hat und wie? Haben Sie jemals das Ende eines Horrorromans aufgeschlagen, um festzustellen, ob der Held es aus der Dunkelheit ins Licht schafft? Wenn Sie das jemals getan haben, dann halte ich es für meine Pflicht, Ihnen drei schlichte Worte zu sagen: SCHÄMEN SIE SICH!

Der Erlkönig Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind ? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind ; Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm. Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht ?- Siehst Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht ? Den Erlenkönig mit Kron und Schweif ?- Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif. - "Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir ! Gar schöne Spiele spiel ich mit dir ; Manch bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand, Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand." Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht, Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht ?- Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind ! In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind.- "Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn ? Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön ; Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein." Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort Erlkönigs Töchter am düstern Ort ?- Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh es genau : Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau.- "Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt ; Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt." Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt faßt er mich an ! Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan ! Dem Vater grauset's, er reitet geschwind, Er hält in den Armen das ächzende Kind, Erreicht den Hof mit Mühe und Not ; In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.

„Erwartet jemand von uns außer im Traum wirklich, mit den geliebtesten Menschen wieder vereinigt zu werden, selbst wenn sie uns nur für wenige Minuten verlassen, um die profansten Dinge zu erledigen? Nein, keineswegs. Sobald sie außer Sicht kommen, zählen wir sie in unserem geheimsten Herzen zu den Toten. Wie können wir erwarten, für die schockierende Vermessenheit unserer Liebe nicht so tief gestürzt zu werden wie Luzifer, schlussfolgern wir, nachdem wir so viel geschenkt bekommen haben?

Das Nimmernie stirbt, Mensch. Es schrumpft mit jedem Jahrzehnt, das vergeht, immer mehr und mehr. Zu viel Fortschritt, zu viel Technologie. Die Sterblichen glauben an nichts anderes mehr als an die Wissenschaft. Selbst die Menschenkinder werden vom Fortschritt verzehrt. Sie verachten die alten Geschichten und werden nur von den neuesten Spielzeugen, Computern und Videospielen angezogen. Sie glauben nicht mehr an Monster und Magie. Während die Städte immer größer werden und die Technologie die Welt an sich reißt, schwinden Glaube und Vorstellungskraft und ebenso schwinden wir.

Fiscal considerations have led to the promulgation of a theory that attributes to the minting authority the right to regulate the purchasing power of the coinage as it thinks fit. For just as long as the minting of coins has been a government function, governments have tried to fix the weight and content of the coins as they wished. Philip VI of France expressly claimed the right "to mint such money and give it such currency and at such rate as we desire and seems good to us" and all medieval rulers thought and did as he in this matter. Obliging jurists supported them by attempts to discover a philosophical basis for the divine right of kings to debase the coinage and to prove that the true value of the coins was that assigned to them by the ruler of the country.

Chüd, dies ist Chüd, halt aus, sei standhaft, sei tapfer, sei treu, steh für deinen Bruder ein, steh für deine Freunde ein, glaube, glaube an all die Dinge, an die du einmal geglaubt hast: daß es so etwas wie das Gute gibt; daß der Polizist, dem du erzählst, du hättest dich verirrt, dafür sorgen wird, daß du sicher nach Hause kommst; daß irgendwo hinter dem Nordpol Santa Claus wohnt, der zusammen mit den Elfen Spielzeuge herstellt,; daß es Captain Midnight wirklich geben könnte, o ja; daß deine Mutter und dein Vater dich wieder lieben werden; daß Tapferkeit möglich ist;daß auch Liebe möglich ist; und daß dir alle Wörter immer leicht und glatt von der Zunge gehen werden - keine Verlierer mehr, kein Kauern mehr in einer Erdgrube mit der hochtrabenden Bezeichnung Klubhaus, kein Weinen mehr in Georgies Zimmer, weil du ihn nicht retten konntest; glaube an dich selbst, glaube an die Glut dieses Verlangens...

Benaja aber zog sein Schwert und sprach: „Hat nicht Joab selbst erklärt, daß er hier sterben will? Ich überbrachte sein Wort dem König; und der König sagte mir: Tue denn, wie er gesagt hat, und schlag ihn und begrabe ihn, daß du das unschuldige Blut, das Joab vergossen hat, von mir nimmst und von meines Vaters Hause. Und der HErr bringe Joabs Blut auf dessen eignes Haupt, der Männer mit dem Schwert erwürgte, die gerechter und besser waren als er, mein Vater David aber wußte nichts davon. Ihr Blut komme darum zurück auf das Haupt Joabs, und auf das Haupt seiner Nachkommen ewiglich: doch auf David und auf seinen Nachkommen und auf seinem Haus und seinem Thron soll der Friede des HErrn sein für immer und alle Zeit. So sprach der König Salomo.“ Benaja ben Jehojada schritt vorbei an dem Priester Zadok und den anderen Priestern, und mit dem Schwert in der Hand trat er zum Altar des HErrn; die Priester aber beeilten sich, die großen Vorhänge zu senken, um derart das Tabernakel zu schließen und alles, was darin war, vor der Sicht des Volkes zu verhüllen.

American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes Jacky Jakes, his mother Greg Peshkov, his father Lev Peshkov, his grandfather Marga, his grandmother MARQUAND FAMILY Verena Marquand Percy Marquand, her father Babe Lee, her mother CIA Florence Geary Tony Savino Tim Tedder, semiretired Keith Dorset OTHERS Maria Summers Joseph Hugo, FBI Larry Mawhinney, Pentagon Nelly Fordham, old flame of Greg Peshkov Dennis Wilson, aide to Bobby Kennedy Skip Dickerson, aide to Lyndon Johnson Leopold “Lee” Montgomery, reporter Herb Gould, television journalist on This Day Suzy Cannon, gossip reporter Frank Lindeman, television network owner REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth U.S. president Jackie, his wife Bobby Kennedy, his brother Dave Powers, assistant to President Kennedy Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy’s press officer Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Lyndon B. Johnson, thirty-sixth U.S. president Richard Nixon, thirty-seventh U.S. president Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth U.S. president Ronald Reagan, fortieth U.S. president George H. W. Bush, forty-first U.S. president British LECKWITH-WILLIAMS FAMILY Dave Williams Evie Williams, his sister Daisy Williams, his mother Lloyd Williams, M.P., his father Eth Leckwith, Dave’s grandmother MURRAY FAMILY Jasper Murray Anna Murray, his sister Eva Murray, his mother MUSICIANS IN THE GUARDSMEN AND PLUM NELLIE Lenny, Dave Williams’s cousin Lew, drummer Buzz, bass player Geoffrey, lead guitarist OTHERS Earl Fitzherbert, called Fitz Sam Cakebread, friend of Jasper Murray Byron Chesterfield (real name Brian Chesnowitz), music agent Hank Remington (real name Harry Riley), pop star Eric Chapman, record company executive German FRANCK FAMILY Rebecca Hoffmann Carla Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive mother Werner Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive father Walli Franck, son of Carla Lili Franck, daughter of Werner and Carla Maud von Ulrich, née Fitzherbert, Carla’s mother Hans Hoffmann, Rebecca’s husband OTHERS Bernd Held, schoolteacher Karolin Koontz, folksinger Odo Vossler, clergyman REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE Walter Ulbricht, first secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (Communist) Erich Honecker, Ulbricht’s successor Egon Krenz, successor to Honecker Polish Stanislaw “Staz” Pawlak, army officer Lidka, girlfriend of Cam Dewar Danuta Gorski, Solidarity activist REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE Anna Walentynowicz, crane driver Lech Wałesa, leader of the trade union Solidarity General Jaruzelski, prime minister Russian DVORKIN-PESHKOV FAMILY Tanya Dvorkin, journalist Dimka Dvorkin, Kremlin aide, Tanya’s twin brother Anya Dvorkin, their mother Grigori Peshkov, their grandfather Katerina Peshkov, their grandmother Vladimir, always called Volodya, their uncle Zoya, Volodya’s wife Nina, Dimka’s girlfriend OTHERS Daniil Antonov, features editor at TASS Pyotr Opotkin, features editor in chief Vasili Yenkov, dissident Natalya Smotrov, official in the Foreign Ministry

It serves the American socialists as a leading argument in their endeavor to depict American capitalism as a curse of mankind. Reluctantly forced to admit that capitalism pours a horn of plenty upon people and that the Marxian prediction of the masses' progressive impoverishment has been spectacularly disproved by the facts, they try to salvage their detraction of capitalism by describing contemporary civilization as merely materialistic and sham. Bitter attacks upon modem civilization are launched by writers who think that they are pleading the cause of religion. They reprimand our age for its secularism. They bemoan the passing of a way of life in which, they would have us believe, people were not preoccupied with the pursuit of earthly ambitions but were first of ali concerned about the strict observance of their religious duties. They ascribe ali evils to the spread of skepticism and agnosticism and passionately advocate a return to the orthodoxy of ages gone by. It is hard to find a doctrine which distorts history more radically than this antisecularism. There have always been devout men, pure in heart and dedicated to a pious life. But the religiousness of these sincere believers had nothing in common with the established system of devotion. It is a myth that the political and social institutions of the ages preceding modem individualistic philosophy and modem capitalism were imbued with a genuine Christian spirit. The teachings of the Gospels did not determine the official attitude of the governments toward religion. It was, on the contrary, thisworldly concems of the secular rulers—absolute kings and aristocratic oligarchies, but occasionally also revolting peasants and urban mobs—that transformed religion into an instrument of profane political ambitions. Nothing could be less compatible with true religion than the ruthless persecution of dissenters and the horrors of religious crusades and wars. No historian ever denied that very little of the spirit of Christ was to be found in the churches of the sixteenth century which were criticized by the theologians of the Reformation and in those of the eighteenth century which the philosophers of the Enlightenment attacked. The ideology of individualism and utilitarianism which inaugurated modern capitalism brought freedom also to the religious longings of man. It shattered the pretension of those in power to impose their own creed upon their subjects. Religion is no longer the observance of articles enforced by constables and executioners. It is what a man, guided by his conscience, spontaneously espouses as his own faith. Modern Western civilization is thisworldly. But it was precisely its secularism, its religious indifference, that gave rein to the renascence of genuine religious feeling. Those who worship today in a free country are not driven by the secular arm but by their conscience. In complying with the precepts of their persuasion, they are not intent upon avoiding punishment on the part of the earthly authorities but upon salvation and peace of mind.

Kleidung war für ihn bisher eben immer nur Kleidung gewesen - man brauchte sie um die Stellen zu bedecken, wo Gott von seinem Geschmack im Stich gelassen worden war.

We are the children of a king and have in our possession the key to our Father’s storehouse. All its treasures are ours to use at any moment. —Eva von Tiele-Winckler

Ah süßer Vogel Jugend, beflügelt von alkoholischen Mixgetränken am Nachmittag

Divorce was legalized in Maryland and Holland adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1701. On that same date the German Hohenzollern royal family was developed from former emperors, kings, princes who were descended of the Germanic kingdoms scattered throughout central Europe. On April 9, 1865, in America, General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate States of America, ended the Civil War by surrendering to General Ulysses S. Grant, Commander of the United States Forces. It wasn’t even a week later, when on April 14th, Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, while watching “Our American Cousin” at the Ford Theater. The following day, as Lincoln lay dying in Washington, D.C., Otto Von Bismarck, a conservative Prussian statesman was elevated to the rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen in Europe. During the second half of the 19th century as Bismarck ran German and dominated European history, Cuba fought for its independence from Spain. On April 25, 1898, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, the United States declared war against Spain. The century ended with turmoil in Europe, a free Cuba and the United States as the new world power!

To enter into the prayer of this book is not merely to share the sentiments of King David, or Asaph, or one of the other inspired poets. Indeed, in a theological sense the voices of these men are secondary, hardly more important than our own. The foundational voice of the Psalms, the underlying bass line of its harmony is, rather, the voice of Jesus Christ, the only Mediator between God and man. The correct theological principle for praying the psalms is the Hypostatic Union, the ontological and irreversible coalescence of the human and the divine, “the synthesis achieved by God, which carries the name of Jesus Christ” (Hans Urs von Balthasar). It

What are we going to do now?' Archbishop Albert asked. 'The Fuggers are holding a knife to our throat.' 'They are called the 'Kings of the Whores' for good reason,' said Ulrich, not waiting to be called this time. Albert sighed. 'What they purchase from the Pope, they sell for varying amounts, all paid by the Pope's flock. Moreover, they are supported by God.' 'Against the Church?' Albert raised his eyebrows. 'They house hundreds of poor in Augsburg, practically for free. They are only asked to say three prayers a day for the family of the Fuggers. A Lord's prayer, a Creed and a Hail Mary. So they pay the poor to pray for them. And God answers those prayers. So they can buy even God himself. One more reason to be on good terms with them.' Albert chuckled despite the bitterness inside.

There are various kinds of such people; some of them can only love other men, others love both men and women… some love neither men nor women.

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All these considerations, conscious and unconscious, strengthened my opinion that war could be avoided only at the cost of the honour of Prussia and of the national confidence in it. Under this conviction I made use of the royal authorisation communicated to me through Abeken, to publish the contents of the telegram; and in the presence of my two guests I reduced the telegram by striking out words, but without adding or altering, to the following form : `After the news of the renunciation of the hereditary Prince of Hohenzollern had been officially communicated to the imperial government of France by the royal government of Spain, the French ambassador at Ems further demanded of his Majesty the King that he would authorise him to telegraph to Paris that his Majesty the King bound himself for all future time never again to give his consent if the Hohenzollerns should renew their candidature.

This instance has been given in order that we may know and believe that in Holy Mass Christ is not present to the imagination alone or in a purely spiritual manner, but really and truly, and in bodily form - the self-same Infant Christ to whom the Mother of God gave birth at Bethlehem, and whom the Three Kings came to adore. Here, as there, His countenance is concealed by "swaddling clothes", that is, by the external shape of the Consecrated Host which we see with our eyes. But the Tender Child who lies hidden beneath those outward forms can only be perceived by the interior sight of faith, the faith that believes undoubtedly that Our Lord is in truth concealed beneath this lowly form. the reasons why He thus conceals Himself from our view are many - the principle one is this, to give opportunity for the exercise of faith in so momentous a matter and to enable us to acquire merit every time we hear Mass.

Therefore, it is not off the point if, along with the forgotten feminine principles, there are no longer good carpets at the kings court and they need one, for they have again to find the pattern in of life. In this way the story tells us that the subtlety of the inventions of the unconscious and the secret design woven into a human life are infinitely more intelligent than human consciousness and more subtle and superior than man could invent. One is again and again overwhelmed by the genius of that unknown mysterious something in our psyche which is the inventor of our dreams, It picks elements from day impressions, from something the dreamer has read the evening before in the paper, or from a childhood memory, and makes a nice kind of potpourri out of it, and only when you have interpreted its meaning do you see the subtlety and the genius of each dream composition. Every night we have that carpet weaver at work within us, who makes those fantastically subtle patterns, so subtle that, unfortunately often after an hour's attempt to interpret them, we are unable to find out the meaning. We are just too clumsy and stupid to follow up the genius of that unknown spirit of the unconscious which invents dreams. But we can understand that this carpet is more subtly woven than any human could ever achieve.

In German-speaking countries Percht is the equivalent of Abundia and Satia. Their identical nature was clearly established by Thomas von Haselbach (ca. 1420–1464), professor of theology at the University of Vienna, who provided other names for these nocturnal visitors: Habundia, Phinzen, Sack Semper, and Sacria.24 Phinzen is the personification of Thursday, Sack Semper is a bogeyman, a member of the Christmas processions as well as the personification of Sempertac, which falls eight days following Three Kings Day (Epiphany).

Tensions also arose with the local landlord, a Polish noble who demanded that Mennonite settlers on his lands perform the same scutage services provided by Polish settlers. For Mennonites, who had come as free persons and not as serfs, this seemed a novel and extraordinary request. A number of them began to look for better opportunities elsewhere.41 In 1764, delegates from Jeziorka went to Berlin to explore settlement pos- sibilities.42 Such a move would mean leaving Polish jurisdiction and moving to lands ruled by Frederick II. One of the king's officials, Franz Balthasar Schonberg von Brenkenhoff, was charged with bringing new settlers to the Netze (Noted) River region, near Driesen in Brandenburg, some 130 miles west of Toruri.43 When he invited Mennonites to settle there, they accepted. In 1764, twenty-eight Mennonite families received settlement rights, with specified privileges. They were granted religious freedom, exemption from military service and the swearing of oaths, and each received forty morgen of land. Later they also received permission to establish and maintain their own schools. In the spring of 1765, thirty-five families arrived at their new home; the twenty-eight from Jeziorka had been joined by others from Przechowka and Sch6nsee.44 Several treks eventually brought some 166 Mennonites to the area.45

American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes Jacky Jakes, his mother Greg Peshkov, his father Lev Peshkov, his grandfather Marga, his grandmother MARQUAND FAMILY Verena Marquand Percy Marquand, her father Babe Lee, her mother CIA Florence Geary Tony Savino Tim Tedder, semiretired Keith Dorset OTHERS Maria Summers Joseph Hugo, FBI Larry Mawhinney, Pentagon Nelly Fordham, old flame of Greg Peshkov Dennis Wilson, aide to Bobby Kennedy Skip Dickerson, aide to Lyndon Johnson Leopold “Lee” Montgomery, reporter Herb Gould, television journalist on This Day Suzy Cannon, gossip reporter Frank Lindeman, television network owner REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth U.S. president Jackie, his wife Bobby Kennedy, his brother Dave Powers, assistant to President Kennedy Pierre Salinger, President Kennedy’s press officer Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Lyndon B. Johnson, thirty-sixth U.S. president Richard Nixon, thirty-seventh U.S. president Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth U.S. president Ronald Reagan, fortieth U.S. president George H. W. Bush, forty-first U.S. president British LECKWITH-WILLIAMS FAMILY Dave Williams Evie Williams, his sister Daisy Williams, his mother Lloyd Williams, M.P., his father Eth Leckwith, Dave’s grandmother MURRAY FAMILY Jasper Murray Anna Murray, his sister Eva Murray, his mother MUSICIANS IN THE GUARDSMEN AND PLUM NELLIE Lenny, Dave Williams’s cousin Lew, drummer Buzz, bass player Geoffrey, lead guitarist OTHERS Earl Fitzherbert, called Fitz Sam Cakebread, friend of Jasper Murray Byron Chesterfield (real name Brian Chesnowitz), music agent Hank Remington (real name Harry Riley), pop star Eric Chapman, record company executive German FRANCK FAMILY Rebecca Hoffmann Carla Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive mother Werner Franck, Rebecca’s adoptive father Walli Franck, son of Carla Lili Franck, daughter of Werner and Carla Maud von Ulrich, née Fitzherbert, Carla’s mother Hans Hoffmann, Rebecca’s husband OTHERS Bernd Held, schoolteacher Karolin Koontz, folksinger Odo Vossler, clergyman REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE Walter Ulbricht, first secretary of the Socialist Unity Party (Communist) Erich Honecker, Ulbricht’s successor Egon Krenz, successor to Honecker Polish Stanislaw “Staz” Pawlak, army officer Lidka, girlfriend of Cam Dewar Danuta Gorski, Solidarity activist REAL HISTORICAL PEOPLE Anna Walentynowicz, crane driver Lech Wałesa, leader of the trade union Solidarity General Jaruzelski, prime minister Russian DVORKIN-PESHKOV FAMILY Tanya Dvorkin, journalist Dimka Dvorkin, Kremlin aide, Tanya’s twin brother Anya Dvorkin, their mother Grigori Peshkov, their grandfather Katerina Peshkov, their grandmother Vladimir, always called Volodya, their uncle Zoya, Volodya’s wife Nina, Dimka’s girlfriend OTHERS Daniil Antonov, features editor at TASS Pyotr Opotkin, features editor in chief Vasili Yenkov, dissident Natalya Smotrov, official in the Foreign Ministry Nik Smotrov, Natalya’s husband Yevgeny Filipov, aide to Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky Vera Pletner, Dimka’s secretary Valentin, Dimka’s friend Marshal Mikhail Pushnoy REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS Nikita Sergeyevitch Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andrei Gromyko, foreign minister under Khrushchev Rodion Malinovsky, defense minister under Khrushchev Alexei Kosygin, chairman of the Council of Ministers Leonid Brezhnev, Khrushchev’s successor Yuri Andropov, successor to Brezhnev Konstantin Chernenko, successor to Andropov Mikhail Gorbachev, successor to Chernenko Other Nations Paz Oliva, Cuban general Frederik Bíró, Hungarian politician Enok Andersen, Danish accountant

disparity between Louie and Woody is most pronounced. In Woody Allen comedies, the Woody protagonist or surrogate takes it upon himself to tutor the young women in his wayward orbit and furnish their cultural education, telling them which books to read (in Annie Hall’s bookstore scene, Allen’s Alvy wants Annie to occupy her mind with Death and Western Thought and The Denial of Death—“You know, instead of that cat book”), which classic films to imbibe at the revival houses back when Manhattan still had a rich cluster of them. In Crimes and Misdemeanors, it’s a 14-year-old female niece who dresses like a junior-miss version of Annie Hall whom Woody’s Clifford squires to afternoon showings at the finer flea pits, advising her to play deaf for the remaining years of her formal schooling. “Don’t listen to what your teachers tell ya, you know. Don’t pay attention. Just, just see what they look like, and that’s how you’ll know what life is really gonna be like.” A more dubious nugget of avuncular wisdom would be hard to imagine, and it isn’t just the Woody stand-in who does the uncle-daddy-mentor-knows-best bit for the benefit of receptive minds in ripe containers. In Hannah and Her Sisters, Max von Sydow’s dour painter-philosophe Frederick is the Old World “mansplainer” of all time, holding court in a SoHo loft which he shares with his lover, Lee, played by Barbara Hershey, whose sweaters abound with abundance. When Lee groans with enough-already exasperation when Frederick begins droning on about an Auschwitz documentary—“You missed a very dull TV show on Auschwitz.

It was Von Choltitz who had given the order in May 1940 to firebomb the inner city of Rotterdam,

If I hadn’t moved, I’d be wearing Americano and cold brew with my Diane von Furstenberg.

In 1703, Gottfried von Leibniz commented to the Swiss scientist and mathematician Jacob Bernoulli that “[N]ature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part,”1 thereby prompting Bernoulli to invent the Law of Large Numbers and methods of statistical sampling that drive modern activities as varied as opinion polling, wine tasting, stock picking, and the testing of new drugs.b Leibniz’s admonition—”but only for the most part”—was more profound than he may have realized, for he provided the key to why there is such a thing as risk in the first place: without that qualification, everything would be predictable, and in a world where every event is identical to a previous event no change would ever occur. In 1730, Abraham de Moivre suggested the structure of the normal distribution—also known as the bell curve—and discovered the concept of standard deviation. Together, these two concepts make up what is popularly known as the Law of Averages and are essential ingredients of modern techniques for quantifying risk. Eight years later, Daniel Bernoulli, Jacob’s nephew and an equally distinguished mathematician and scientist, first defined the systematic process by which most people make choices and reach decisions. Even more important, he propounded the idea that the satisfaction resulting from any small increase in wealth “will be inversely proportionate to the quantity of goods previously possessed.” With that innocent-sounding assertion, Bernoulli explained why King Midas was an unhappy man, why people tend to be risk-averse, and why prices must fall if customers are to be persuaded to buy more.

When looking to unite a nation, one needs a king, a national hero, and a national museum.

I am the king, and I make the laws. You either abide, or you will die a rebel.

Imprint thyself more deeply upon me, thou image of my King, thou, not I, shalt dwell in my soul, in my heart, in my countenance, on my lips, thou, not I, so long as I live, only thou!

ONE of the more important arguments in favour of Socialism is that contained in the slogan ‘self-government in industry’. As in the political sphere the King's absolutism was broken by the peoples’ right to share decisions and later by its sole right to decide, so the absolutism of owners of the means of production and of entrepreneurs is to be abolished by consumers and workers.

If there were captions explaining their history next to these dedications they would be proof of the richness of relationships in Panikkar’s life and of how my collection came from many directions. In order to sing my glories, I will select names of several famous authors who gave their books with dedications to Panikkar and to me: Francesco Alberoni, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Bettina Baümer, Massimo Cacciari, Enrico Castelli, Emil Cioran, Victoria Cirlot, Oscar Cullman, Jacques Albert Cuttat, Henri e Lubac, Mircea Eliade, Jean Guitton, Alois Maria Haas, Martin Heidegger, Johannes Kakichi Kadowaki, Károly Kerényi, Ursula King, Serge Latouche, Javier Meloni, Salvador Pániker, Octavio Paz, Emanuele Severino, Raniero La Valle, Amador Vega, Uma Marina Vesci,

Er und ich hatten die Tentakel gesehen. Die Vorstellung, Salz auf sie zu streuen oder zu versuchen, sie mit den Stielen von Besen und O'Cedar-Mopps zu vertreiben, hatte auf schreckliche Weise etwas Komisches an sich.

Usa un tono suave y elegante, delicadamente irónico y algo informal que cambia de idioma de forma arbitraria, según el objeto de conversación, aunque casi todo el tiempo emplea su francés de los Balcanes demasiado literario, pronunciado con afectada corrección, y de vez en cuando también usa el inglés de su generación el cual, con la inocente creencia de que era preciso hablar The King’s English, imitaba el acento alemán de Eduardo VII; otras veces recurre a su austro-aleman aristocrático, asombrosamente natural, aunque de acento duro, como el hablado en la periferia y en otras ocasiones hace uso del rumano, que confería de repente a su discurso un colorido campesino, vigoroso y terrenal.

Always quick-witted, he would occasionally get carried away, inventing derogative nicknames or gossiping behind people’s backs. The King of Sicily, for example, he renamed the ‘pasta king’ while a conservative Prussian minister was declared ‘a glacier’ who was so icy, Humboldt joked, that he had given him rheumatism in the left shoulder.

The powers of the time had first rushed to the city of the most powerful man in the world, the German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck. But five years later, they came to Leopold II. In 1890, Brussels became the capital of colonizing Europe. The city held an anti-slavery conference, to strengthen Berlin-1885 and "to put an end to the Negro Slave Trade by land as well as by sea, and to improve the moral and material conditions of the natives". It was, in accordance with the mentalities of the time, a proclamation of "fundamental rights of populations", starting with the most basic: the right to life. Berlin-1885 had already expressed similar rights in the search for " the preservation of the native tribes, and to care for the improvement of the conditions of their moral and material well-being, and to help in suppressing slavery, and especially the slave trade". The Treaty of Brussels-1890 was also contracted "in the name of God Almighty". It ordered to put an end to the crimes and devastation of the slavers and to provide the benefits of peace and civilization on the continent.

Looking over thousands of years of human history, from the end of the prehistoric age up until the 1450s, instead of the quality of humanity being in a steady upward, progressive trajectory, von Ranke found that human beings perpetually alternated back and forth between improvement and regression, peace and war, provision and famine, unity and dissension, freedom and captivity, good and evil.

32,000 BC to the destruction of King Solomon’s Temple and Citadel sometime around 14,415 BC and the great Dark Age that fell upon humanity during these years. To begin our journey,

Believe me, although it’s vexing to remember it, I am the King of my enemies as well as my friends. There’s a certain noblesse oblige, see. It’s a bad king who kills his subjects. I would rather see them humiliated than dead.