We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Everything had to turn a profit and turn one it did, even the boundless heaps of stone and gravel-slides, the glacier tips and precipices. For once nature had been discovered and every idiot could feel sublime in mountain solitude, the tourist industry became possible.

Byen var et uhyre, som uavbrutt fødte, oppløste og slukte nye mennesker.

Politics and business were governed by the same laws, the laws of power. That applied to war as well. In particular, business was a continuation of war by other means.