“Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.”
Lewis Mumford (1895–1990) American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and literary critic
In the Name of Sanity (1954)
“There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.”
Es gibt keine verzweifelten Lagen, es gibt nur verzweifelte Menschen.
As quoted in Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945 (1965) by Oskar Munzel
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