Quotes by Austrian/Austria authors (page 16)

"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire"

Ludwig von Mises, Economist

"I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"We started at once to dig our trenches, half of my platoon stepping forward abreast, the men being placed an arm's length apart. After laying their rifles down, barrels pointing to the enemy, a line was drawn behind the row of rifles and parallel to it"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist"

Erwin Schrodinger, Scientist

"Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about half a mile ahead of us where the shrapnel had exploded. The battle had begun"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow"

Franz Grillparzer, Poet

"My wife volunteered her services as Red Cross nurse, insisting upon being sent to the front, in order to be as near me as could be, but it developed later that no nurse was allowed to go farther than the large troop hospitals far in the rear of the actual operations"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused"

Fritz Kreisler, Composer

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man"

Ernst Fischer, Writer

"It's funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

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