"I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all - or am I?"

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Source : "Otto Dix, 1891-1969", exhibition catalogue, London: Tate Gallery, 1992, pp. 17 - 18; as cited by Roy Forward, in "Education resource material: beauty, truth and goodness in Dix's War", p. 9,

Otto Dix

#Fall Quotes #Bullets Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“The absent are always in the wrong”

Source : "L'Obstacle Imprévu" by Philippe Néricault Destouches, translated by Nérine, Act I., Scene VI, 1717.
“To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.”
“Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.”
“I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.”
“I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.”
“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”

Source : Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.64, ReadHowYouWant.com
“God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing”
“Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.”

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