Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Boyishness—by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker.

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking.

It's a very democratic instrument, everyone is reduced to the same amateur level.

Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.