Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 131
“Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.”
To Leon Goldensohn, May 11, 1946, from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
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Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006, published in "The wisdom of one" (25 April 2007) http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/the-wisdom-of-one/2007/04/24/1177180647120.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1


“Now, where did we ever get the idea that there is such a thing as 'good government?'”
That is a contradiction in terms as ridiculous as 'constructive rape.'
p. 14
Good Government: Hope or Illusion? (1978)
Vladimir Horowitz, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music

quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music

Book VII : Modern Times, Ch. IX : The Final Consequences
Penguin Island (1908)
Context: Penguinia gloried in its wealth. Those who produced the things necessary for life, wanted them; those who did not produce them had more than enough. "But these," as a member of the Institute said, "are necessary economic fatalities." The great Penguin people had no longer either traditions, intellectual culture, or arts. The progress of civilisation manifested itself among them by murderous industry, infamous speculation, and hideous luxury. Its capital assumed, as did all the great cities of the time, a cosmopolitan and financial character. An immense and regular ugliness reigned within it. The country enjoyed perfect tranquillity. It had reached its zenith.