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# Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (born 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was widely regarded as Germany's most famous recently living writer.

## Quotes

* Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred.
** The Tin Drum Book 1, "Rasputin and the Alphabet" (1959), as translated by Ralph Manheim (1961)
* I shall speak of … how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another … Of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next … Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis and progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
** "On Stasis and Progress"' in Diary of a Snail (1972)
* We of the long tails! We of the presentient whiskers! We of the perpetually growing teeth! We, the serried footnotes to man, his proliferating commentary. We, indestructible!
** The Rat (1986), p. 6
* Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.
** As quoted in The Boys' Crusade (2003) by Paul Fussell, pg xv ISBN 0-679-64088-6

## Quotes about Grass

* The creation of the 'Polish Corridor' running from Upper Silesia to Danzig thus left East Prussia as a bleeding chunk of Germany between the Vistula and the Niémen. Was Danzig really a free city? Or was it actually a Polish captive? And was that also the true situation of East Prussia? To assert their claims, the Poles sought to monopolize the Danzig postal service; at the same time, they constructed a rival port, Gdynia, to divert commerce away from the Free City. Danzigers who wished to travel to Germany (including Prussia) required a Polish transit visa. The poisoned atmosphere generated by such petty sources of friction is well preserved in Günter Grass's Danzig trilogy, The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. It is no accident that the most memorable fictional personification of the German catastrophe, the stunted drummer Oscar Matzerath, is born in Danzig in 1924.
** Niall Ferguson, The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006), pp. 163-164

## External links

* Nobel prize Biobibliographical notes
* Biographical timeline
* Concise biographical information, essays
* Grass' special links to Gdansk
* Less concise biographical information
* Grass admits serving with Waffen-SS
* Survey of reactions to Grass's disclosure of his time in the Waffen-SS from the German and international press
* Grass' "Shame" Over SS Service
* Detailed article on his Waffen-SS membership
Interviews
* Elizabeth Gaffney (Summer 1991). "Gunter Grass, The Art of Fiction No. 124".
* Gunter Grass discusses The Tin Drum on the BBC World Service programme World Book Club
* Video interview on PBS with Günter Grass by Charlie Rose
* 2007 Real Audio interview at NYPL with Günter Grass and Norman Mailer by Andrew O'Hagan
* Portrait on rosenthalusa.com
* Authority control: WorldCat search
# Géza Anda

Géza Anda (19 November 1921 – 14 June 1976) was a Hungarian pianist.

## Quotes about Anda

* I think Michelangeli in some repertory is absolutely incredible, especially Debussy. One special favorite of mine is Géza Anda who I think is such an underrated pianist and a great musician. A lot of young people don’t know him. There was such a natural way of making music in what he does. He was spontaneous, so alive, totally without makeup, and so honest. Without being shy, he takes risks. His playing is a wonderful combination of intellect and intuition. And, of course, I adore Lipatti, the best of Schnabel, and Horowitz at his best. He orchestrated at the piano.
** Leif Ove Andsnes, in At the piano : interviews with 21st-century pianists (2012) by Caroline Benser
* The magic of Anda's piano playing lies primarily in his extraordinary culture of touch. There are just a very few piano sounds in the world just as beautiful. [...] When he plays passages, and even longer, tied scale-like melodies across the whole keyboard, the tone color changes like alternating human voices: the alto becomes tenor, the tenor darkens to bass. And then there are those special, hardly pressed, almost just palpated middle voices running and gliding through in the Schumann work, that conjures almost a hoffmannian atmosphere around Anda's performance. Is it still the technique, a question of touch only? By no means. We have been talking about the music for a long time […]
** György Kroó, following a recital in Budapest, 1973 (Liszt Academy Alumni)
# Günter Lüling

Günter Lüling (25 October 1928 – 10 September 2014) was a German Protestant theologian, philological scholar (Dr. in Arabistics and Islamics) and pioneer in the study of early Islamic origins. From 1962 to 1965 he was the Director of the German Goethe-Institut in Aleppo, Syria.

## Quotes

* The text of the Koran as transmitted by Muslim Orthodoxy contains, hidden behind it as a ground layer and considerably scattered throughout it (together about one-third of the whole Koran text), an originally pre- Islamic Christian text.” Earlier Qur’anic scholars such as Alois Sprenger and Tor Andrae have also identified a Christian substratum.
** quoted from Robert Spencer, Did Muhammad Exist? (2021)

## About

* Lüling sees traces of the Christian controversies over the nature of Christ in the Qur’an’s denunciations of those who associate partners with Allah. Lüling sees the Muslim charge that the pagan Quraysh of Mecca were mushrikun, those who associated others with Allah in worship, as an indication that they had actually converted to orthodox Trinitarian Christianity, thereby reinforcing their rejection of Islam’s hardline monotheism and rejection of Christ’s divinity. As the Islamic faith began to develop as a distinct religion, it decisively rejected this faith in Christ and reinterpreted the Qur’an to fit its developing new theology. The hanifs, who were overwhelmed by the coming of Islam and its success, were the last remnants of those who held to creedally vague monotheism.
** Robert Spencer, Did Muhammad Exist? (2021)
# Gérard de Nerval

Gérard de Nerval (French: [ʒeʁaʁ də nɛʁval]; 22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855) was the nom-de-plume of the French writer, poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie. A major figure of French romanticism, he is best known for his poems and novellas, especially the collection Les Filles du feu (The Daughters of Fire), which includes the novella Sylvie and the poem "El Desdichado". He played a major role in introducing French readers to the works of German Romantic authors, including Klopstock, Schiller, Bürger and Goethe. His later work delved into the relationship between poetry and madness, reality and fiction, and dreams and life. He was a major influence on Marcel Proust, André Breton and Surrealism.

## Quotes

* They will return, these Gods you have never stopped longing for. Time will bring back the order of ancient days.
** Quoted from Hinduism Today : Pagan Power in Modern Europe By Hughes Henry, Belgium, July 1999
* The Cantal of Auvergne corresponds to the Cantal of the Himalayas. The Merovingians are Indians or Persians or Trojans . . . . Is it not highly important to clarify these relationships, migrations and filiations, at least with somewhat more care and research than has been devoted to them so far?
** Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe page 200
# Chapekar brothers

The Chapekar brothers (also spelt Chaphekar or Chapekar), Damodar Hari Chapekar (1870–1898), Balkrishna Hari Chapekar (1873–1899, also called Bapurao) and Vasudeo Hari Chapekar (1879–1899), also spelt Wasudeva or Wasudev, were Indian revolutionaries involved in the assassination of W. C. Rand, the British plague commissioner of Pune.

## Quotes

* A system of administration so cruel as that of the English cannot, even if search be made, be found, in any region of this globe. Far better were the tyrannical Yavana kings who with sword in hands actually cut the throats of men as if there were so many goats. But the English are perfidious and I positively declare that no other people can be found on this earth who are as villainous as they and who like them ruin others by a show of kindness . . . Hitherto there have been many cruel Yavana kings in India but they made no rules from excluding Hindus from particular appointments or for limiting the number of those open to them.
** Damodar Chapekar quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
* We have formed an association called Dandapani. Our fixed determination is to die and kill others for the sake of our religion. Its first achievement was the blackening of the face of the statue of the Queen of England who made a distinction between Natives and Europeans . . . This Dandapani Association will not be overawed by any one. Anyone who encourages immorality, whether the Queen or someone superior to her is the enemy of this association. 27
** Damodar Chapekar quoted in Vikram Sampath - Savarkar, Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 (2019)
# Charaka

Charaka (Sanskrit: चरक, romanized: Caraka, fl. c. 100 BCE – 200 CE[1]) was one of the principal contributors to Ayurveda, a system of medicine and lifestyle developed in Ancient India. He is known as the compiler or editor (Sanskrit: प्रतिसंस्कर्ता, romanized: pratisaṁskartā) of the medical treatise entitled Charaka Samhita (Sanskrit: चरकसंहिता, romanized: Carakasaṁhitā). Charaka has been identified as a native of Kashmir. The treatise that Charaka compiled is one of the foundational treatises of classical Indian medicine and is regarded one among the Brihat-Trayee (the Greatest - trio) of Ayurveda (Sanskrit: आयुर्वेद, romanized: āyurvēda).

## Quotes

* Charaka composed a Samhita (or encyclopedia) of medicine, which is still used in India, and gave to his followers an almost Hippocratic conception of their calling: “Not for self, not for the fulfilment of any earthly desire of gain, but solely for the good of suffering humanity should you treat your patients, and so excell all.” Only less illustrious than these are Vagbhata (625 A.D.), who prepared a medical compendium in prose and verse, and Bhava Misra (1550 A.D.), whose voluminous work on anatomy, physiology and medicine mentioned, a hundred years before Harvey, the circulation of the blood...
** Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage : India and Her Neighbors.
# Evsey Domar

Evsey David Domar (Russian: Евсей Давидович Домашевицкий, Domashevitsky; April 16, 1914 – April 1, 1997) was a Russian American economist, famous as co-author of the Harrod–Domar model.

## Quotes

* The construction of an economic model, or of any model or theory for that matter (or the writing of a novel, a short story, or a play) consists of snatching from the enormous and complex mass of facts called reality, a few simple, easily-managed key points which, when put together in some cunning way, become for certain purposes a substitute for reality itself.
** Essays in the Theory of Economic Growth (1957)
# Ewen MacAskill

Ewen MacAskill (born 1951) is a Scottish journalist. He worked for 22 years on The Guardian, ending his career in September 2018 as the newspaper's defence and intelligence correspondent. MacAskill was involved in preparing the publication disclosures from Edward Snowden of the activities of the American National Security Agency (NSA).

## Quotes

* Another whistleblower that I owe much to is Edward Snowden. I went to Hong Kong in 2013 with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras and spent over a week holed up with Snowden in our hotel room in Hong Kong. Whistleblowers are essential to good journalism. They allow reporters to get behind... the walls of secrecy built up by officials and press officers.
** Quoted in Free Julian Assange: Snowden, Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing, Democracy Now!, October 25, 2021
* If Julian is to be prosecuted, then there’s a equally good case for the editor and journalists in The Guardian or New York Times, Der Spiegel, El País, La República and all the other organizations involved in this coverage being prosecuted, too.
** Quoted in Free Julian Assange: Snowden, Varoufakis, Corbyn & Tariq Ali Speak Out Ahead of Extradition Hearing, Democracy Now!, October 25, 2021

## See also

* Freedom of the press
* Investigative journalism
* Journalism
* Edward Snowden
# Ex-Muslim activism in Kerala

Since 2019, Ex-Muslim new atheism has been developing into salient collectivization of activism in Kerala. Until 2021, most forms of activism had been mainly limited to online social media platforms. Since 2021-2022, an offline debate among Kerala's prominent intellectuals, some organizational mechanism has been formalizing for support of Ex-Muslim activism in Kerala.

## Quotes

* The trend is catching pace in India too, especially in Kerala. An organisation has recently been formed to provide those who renounce Islam, a platform to express and gather fearlessly. “Ex-Muslims of Kerala” is an attempt by the educated Muslim youth, who thought to exit the religion and become free thinkers. It has declared January 9 as ‘Kerala Ex-Muslim Day’. It is a historic development as many members in the group are active in social media debates attracting more like-minded people to their fold. Kerala, with Islamic radicalization growing unimaginably voluminous in its Malabar region, has become a hotbed of Islamist activities which the state administration is purposefully silent about. Most of the members in the group face economic and social boycotts and sometimes receive violent reactions from the radicals. Excommunication of people who left Islam is normal in the community and thanks to democracy that apostasy is not punishable under the constitution. The movement in Kerala provides social, economic and legal support to the Ex-Muslims.
** Ex-Muslim Movement – Dissension Or Reformation?, 2022
* In probably a first in India, an organisation has been formed in Kerala to provide a platform to those who are renouncing Islam, a move which has significant socio-political implications. Although there are rationalist movements and religious reformist movements in our country, there was no organisation until now to represent those who leave a religion and want to continue as non-religious, neutral person(s). Now, a group of people who renounced Islam have come together to form ‘Ex-Muslims of Kerala’ and also decided to observe January 9 as ‘Kerala Ex-Muslim Day’. Moreover, considering India’s religious history, the ex-Muslims’ movement of Kerala can be viewed as a unique historical development.
** Why Muslims in Kerala are Leaving Islam
* A group of people “who abandoned their religion” have floated a new organisation called ‘Ex-Muslims of Kerala’, offering a platform and support to those who stopped practising Islam. The organization observed January 9 as ‘Ex-Muslims Day’.
** Now, an outfit for ‘Ex-Muslims’ in Kerala
# Ewan McGregor

Ewan Gordon McGregor, OBE (born 31 March 1971) is a Scottish-American actor.

## Quotes

* I'm sorry, but when you're 12, you don't need a new mobile phone every few months just because a new one comes out.
** Newstrack India; Sep 26, 2008
* There is something liberating about just having what you need, on your bike... A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.
** MarketWatch; Sep 30, 2008
# Clementine Churchill

Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, GBE (née Hozier; 1 April 1885 – 12 December 1977) was the wife of Winston Churchill and a life peer in her own right.

## Quotes

* Never talk rich, never talk poor, never talk money.”
** Clementine Churchill, in Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (1979)
* I think my Darling you will have to be very patient - Do not burn any boats - The P.M. [ H. H. Asquith ] has not treated you worse than Ll. G has done, in fact not so badly for he is not as much in your debt as the other man, (i.e. Marconi).* On the other hand are the Dardanelles. I feel sure that if the choice were equal you would prefer to work with the P.M. than with LI. G. - It's true that when association ceases with the P.M. he cools & congeals visibly, but all the time you were at the Admiralty he was loyal & steadfast while the other would barter you away at any time in any place. I assure you he is the direct descendant of Judas Iscariott [sic]. At this moment altho I hate the P.M, if he held out his hand I could take it, (tho' I would give it a nasty twist) but before taking Ll. G's I would have to safeguard myself with charms, touchwoods, exorcisms & by crossing myself - I always can get on with him & yesterday I had a good talk, but you can't hold his eyes, they shift away -You know I'm not good at pretending but I am going to put my pride in my pocket & reconnoitre Downing Street.
** Letter: Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire, 30th December, 1915
* It is for you [Winston Churchill] to give the Orders & if they are bungled — except for the King, the Archbishop of Canterbury & the Speaker, you can sack anyone & everyone — Therefore with this terrific power you must combine urbanity, kindness and if possible Olympic calm. You used to quote:— 'On ne règne sur les âmes que par le calme' [One can reign over hearts only by keeping one's composure.] — I cannot bear that those who serve the Country and yourself should not love as well as admire and respect youBesides you won't get the best results by irascibility & rudeness. They will breed either dislike or a slave mentality — (Rebellion in War time being out of the question!)
** Letter, June 27, 1940

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Clementine Churchill on Wikipedia
* Media related to Clementine Churchill on Wikimedia Commons
# Clementina Stirling Graham

Clementina Stirling Graham (1782 – 1877), of Duntrune, was a Scottish hostess and author, known for her Mystifications.

## Quotes

* The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it.
** Mystifications, Ch. 2 "Soiree at Mr. Russell's" (1859)
# Clementine Ford (writer)

Clementine Ford (born 1981) is an Australian feminist writer and public speaker.

## Quotes

* I am very much pro-life. I'm pro the life of women who have lived for years as opposed to cells that have lived for weeks.
** Clementine Ford reveals her two no guilt, no shame abortions, October 15, 2009, at news.com.au
* [T]he rules are different for you and always will be; that you must be composed at all times and never scrap in the muck laid down by your opponents because your moral purity is measured differently to theirs.
** Clementine Ford: This is the personal price I pay for speaking out online, July 13 2017, in the Sydney Morning Herald
* You can be told 20 days in (a) row that you should be raped and sodomised and beaten and strung up and thrown out and taught a lesson, but if on the 21st day you turn around and make a joke about firing men into the sun using a cannon, you are a scold who hates men and is teaching her son that he's a rapist.
** Clementine Ford: This is the personal price I pay for speaking out online, July 13 2017, in the Sydney Morning Herald
* Could men just shut the fuck up?
** The Tweet, April 1 2019, Twitter

## Quotes about Clementine Ford

* Ms Ford was recently called out for signing a copy of her book with 'have you killed any men today? And if not, why not?'.
** 'I'm not taking questions from boys': Parent claims feminist Clementine Ford 'treated boys like crap' during a school talk - before female pupils got up and walked out, Daily Mail, 31 August 2017
* Ford’s all-consuming hatred for men is absolutely dripping. She screams, “The framing of criminal acts like these as being somehow the result of depression or financial struggles or just a lack of appropriate emotional support cannot help but infest the circumstances with an air of sympathy and understanding.” She slams “traditional notions of masculinity”, rants about the “patriarchy” and then Lifeline’s number is listed at the end. The fact Ford blankly refuses to comprehend motivational factors contributing to human beings wanting out of life purely highlights why she was never, and should never be, given a platform to speak at any events by any suicide prevention organisation. Ever.
** A Lifeline for true equality, the Spectator, 14 May 2018
# Clementine Mukeka

Clementine Mukeka is a Rwandan public administrator who was appointed by H.E. President Paul Kagame as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on 15 May 2020.

## Quotes

* Countries around the world are feeling the impact of climate change, which is said to be affecting their communities.
** " climate change affecting their communities", (The New Times October 18, 2022)
# Clementine Dusabejambo

Marie Clémentine Dusabejambo was born in Kigali in 1987Rwandan . She trained as an electrical and telecommunications engineer. Dusabejambo's short film Lyiza, 2011, Behind the Word, 2013, A Place for Myself, 2016, Icyasha / Etiquette, 2018.

## Quotes

* This means more open doors to us, internationally. You know, Sembène is the father of the African cinema, the film was given this award because it reflects his aspirations: African filmmakers telling African stories that awaken society.
** accepts my award as the overall winner, said Clementine Dusabejambo (The New Times, Thursday, July 21, 2016)
* The festival is not about film screening alone. There are also numerous events around the festival and ZIFF gives exposure, not only to films and filmmakers, but it also gives that exposure to different forms of art: music, dance, painting, photography.
** Clementine Dusabejambo said that, showing my short film and took away from the festival (The New Times, Thursday, July 21, 2016)
* We are three African co-productions and we hope to have at least 40% of the budget on our side, and on the other side, that it also comes from Europe. International co-production is important for distribution. We need our films not only to be seen in Africa, but also to be seen in Europe.
** The film is written, the budget remains to be completed, said Clementine Dusabejambo (rfi , April 25, 2011)
* It was a surprise! I didn’t know and it seems like I was the only one who didn’t know I would be receiving an award. People in my entourage knew.
** the poor representation of Rwanda said Clementine Dusabejambo (The New Times, Saturday, March 11, 2017)
* When I got on stage I didn’t say anything. I was totally speechless. It was the second time a Thomas Sankara Prize was being given out at FESPACO. Everyone was waiting for it because Thomas Sankara was a great hero in Burkina Faso.
** Dusabejambo said that, the Thomas Sankara prize (The New Times, Saturday, March 11, 2017)