German Children

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    The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them—thus preserving the system.
    Quentin Crewe (20th century)