Address Unknown Quotes

“But there is another realm where we can always find something true, the fireside of a friend, where we shed our little conceits and find warmth and understanding, where small selfishnesses are impossible and where wine and books and talk give a different meaning to existence.
There we have made something that no falseness can touch. We are at home.”
― Kressman Taylor, Address Unknown

“We are vain and we are dishonest because it is necessary to triumph over other vain and dishonest persons.”
― Kressman Taylor, Address Unknown

“Your new attitude I cannot discuss. But you must understand me. I did not expect you would take up arms for my people because they are my people, but because you were a man who loved justice.”
― Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“A short time before the war, some cultivated, intellectual, warm-hearted German friends of mine returned to Germany after living in the United States. In a very short time they turned into sworn Nazis. They refused to listen to the slightest criticism about Hitler. During a return visit to California, they met an old dear friend of theirs on the street, who had been very close to them and who was a Jew. They did not speak to him. They turned their backs on him when he held his hands out to embrace them. How can such a thing happen, I wondered. What changed their hearts so? What steps brought them to such cruelty?”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“...اینجور اتفاق ها مثل طوفان است. در یک لحظه خیس آب می شوی و از پا میفتی و هیچ کاری هم از دستت برنمی آید. اما لحظه ای بعد آفتاب درمی آید و بااینکه هیچ چیز را فراموش نکرده ای تنها چیزی که باقی می ماند محبت است نه غم و غصه”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“از بین رفتن ناامیدی خیلی وقتها منجر می شود به قدم گذاشتن در راههای جنون آمیز.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“The inequities Ellison had addressed were still, sadly, very much with us. After class I went out to dinner with my students, Black, Asian, Hispanic and white, all of us sitting around the table. Despite what I’d written on the board, I found myself thinking how fortunate we were to live in a time and place where we could work and talk as equals. Only later did I learn that afterward, walking home, my Black students carefully crossed the road to avoid the crowds of white people spilling out of the bars. As it did for many others, it took eight minutes and forty-six seconds on May 25, 2020, to make me realize how painfully limited my understanding was of the lives of Black Americans. The evidence was all around me, yet I had managed to have no idea of the ways in which racism, fear, authorized brutality and prejudice affected, to varying degrees, everyone in the Black community.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“من انتظار نداشتم برای دفاع از قوم من مبارزه کنی صرفا بدین سبب که آن ها قوم من هستند، بلکه از تو انتظار داشتم مبارزه کنی چرا که دوستدار عدالت بودی.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“حتی اگر یک تار مو هم از سر هم نژادهای من در آلمان کم نشده بود، باز همین سانسور، همین سوزاندن کتابخانه ها و به تباهی کشاندن دانشگاه ها، قاعدتا باید مخالفت تو را بر می انگیخت. مارتین، تو آدم آزادیخواهی هستی. تو همیشه دید وسیعی داشته ای. مطمئنا جنبش عوام با این همه عیب و ایراد، هر قدر هم قدرتمند باشد، نباید تو را از جاده ی عقل خارج کند.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“اما وادی دیگری هست که همیشه می توانیم احساست صادقانه را در آن تجربه کنیم- محضر دوست. آن جا که خودپسندی های حقیرمان را دور می ریزیم و صمیمیت و تفاهم را حس می کنیم؛ همان جا که خودخواهی های حقیرغیرممکنند و شراب و کتاب و و کلام معنای دیگری به زندگی ما می دهند. به این ترتیب چیزی ساخته ایم که هیچ دروغی به آن راه ندارد. آن جا در آرامش کاملیم.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“اما وادی دیگری هست که همیشه می توانیم احساست صادقانه را در آن تجربه کنیم- محضر دوست. آن جا که خودپسندی های حقیرمان را دور می ریزیم و صمیمیت و تفاهم را حس می کنیم؛ همان جا که خودخواهی های حقیرغیرممکنند و شراب و کتاب و و کلام معنای دیگری به زندگی ما می دهند. به این ترتیب چیزی ساخته ایم که هیچ دروغی به آن راه ندارد. آن جا در آرامش کاملیم.”
― Kressman Taylor, Address Unknown

“Can I endure to have my house ransacked with Elsa ill in bed and to risk being arrested for harboring a Jew and to lose all I have built up here?”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“She has displayed her Jewish body on the stage before pure young German men.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“You will see only that your own people are troubled. You will not see that a few must suffer for the millions to be saved. You will be a Jew first and wail for your people.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“I tell you truly, Max, I think in many ways Hitler is good for Germany, but I am not sure. He is now the active head of the government. I doubt much that even Hindenburg could now remove him from power, as he was truly forced to place him there.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“His brown shirt troops are of the rabble.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“All of us officials who cherish whole skins are quick to join the National Socialists”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“Poor child, it has not been easy for her, but she has never complained. She has a fine spirit, as well as beauty, and I hope the talent as well. She asked about you, Martin, in a very friendly way. There is no bitterness left there, for that passes quickly when one is young as she is. A few years and there is only a memory of the hurt, and of course neither of you was to be blamed. Those things are like quick storms, for a moment you are drenched and blasted, and you are so wholly helpless before them. But then the sun comes, and although you have neither quite forgotten, there remains only gentleness and no sorrow.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“A liberal is a man who does not believe in doing anything. He is a talker about the rights of man, but just a talker. He likes to make a big noise about freedom of speech, and what is freedom of speech? Just the chance to sit firmly on the backside and say that whatever is being done by the active men is wrong. What is so futile as the liberal? I know him well because I have been one. He condemns the passive government because it makes no change. But let a powerful man arise, let an active man start to make a change, then where is your liberal? He is against it. To the liberal any change is the wrong one.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“Is it for this we spend our lives, to scheme for money and then to strut it publicly? I am always castigating myself, but I continue to do as before. Alas, we are all caught in the same mill. We are vain and we are dishonest because it is necessary to triumph over other vain and dishonest persons.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“Those things are like quick storms, for a moment you are drenched and blasted, and you are so wholly helpless before them. But then the sun comes, and although you have neither quite forgotten, there remains only gentleness and no sorrow.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“Despair overthrown often turns us in mad directions.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“I have never hated the individual Jew -- yourself I have always cherished as a friend, but you will know that I speak in all honesty when I say I have loved you, not because of your race but in spite of it.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“You will see only that your own people are troubled. You will not see that a few must suffer for the millions to be saved.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“And I will no longer have any dealings with Jews, except for the receipt of money.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“We purge our bloodstream of its baser elements.”
― Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“The man I have loved as a brother, whose heart has ever been brimming with sympathy and friendship, cannot possibly partake of even a passive partnership in the butchery of innocent people.”
― Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“Alas, to us Jews they are a sad story familiar through centuries of repetition, and it is almost unbelievable that the old martyrdom must be endured in a civilized nation today.”
― Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“I am always castigating myself, but I continue to do as before.”
― Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown

“The Nazis succeeded in taking over the church, 'but gradually,' she writes, 'they became aware that something was wrong... A force was resisting them, something they could not put their hands on -- a belief.”
― Kressmann Taylor, Address Unknown