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“The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Black Obelisk
Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.
Der schwarze Obelisk (1956)
A variant of this quote "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic." has also been attributed to Joseph Stalin, but no source for this has been found. This version appeared in the English press not later than 1958. (Ремарк, Эрих Мария // Словарь современных цитат / составитель К. В. Душенко — Москва: изд-во «Эксмо», 2006)
“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Night in Lisbon
Source: The Night in Lisbon
“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 6
Context: It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dugout I might have been smashed to atoms, and in the open survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier survives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.”
Erich Maria Remarque book Three Comrades
Source: Three Comrades
“We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist
“It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
Erich Maria Remarque book Three Comrades
Source: Three Comrades
“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) German novelist
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
„Bármi, amit pénzzel el lehet intézni, olcsó.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) német pacifista és antifasiszta író
„Az életről való tudásunk korlátozva van a halállal.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) német pacifista és antifasiszta író
„Egy ember halála igazságos halál, kétmillió ember halála pedig statisztika.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) német pacifista és antifasiszta író
„A szeretetet nem szabad barátsággal beszennyezni.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) német pacifista és antifasiszta író
„Jó vagy rossz, az élet az élet; de ezt csak akkor veszed észre, amikor meg kell kockáztatnod.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) német pacifista és antifasiszta író
„Annyi mondanivalónk van, és soha nem fogjuk ki mondani.”
Erich Maria Remarque (1898–1970) német pacifista és antifasiszta író