There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. – Elias Canetti
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. – Elias Canetti
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesnt know the bad he might do. – Elias Canetti
It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures? – Thomas Jefferson