كل دولة تسمي نفسها وطنا عندما توشك على ارتكاب جريمة .. - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

...he had read von Lambert's book on terrorism, there were two pages devoted to the Arab resistance movement, von Lambert refused to call them terrorists, which didn't preclude, and he had emphasized this, that nonterrorists were also capable of atrocities, Auschwitz, for instance, was not the work of terrorists but of state employees...

Thus I was placed into the world without being able to see through it — because I had never come to grips with it, because I imagined it was governed by the rules of the orphanage in which I grew up. Quite unprepared, was cast into the system in which humans prey upon one another; quite unprepared, I saw myself confronted by the instincts that form them, greed, hate, fear, cunning, the thirst for power, but I was equally helpless when subjected to the feelings that make that predatory system humane: dignity, moderation, reason, and, ultimately, love.

Das Schweigen des Todes sank auf ihn, kroch in ihn hinein, aber es gab ihm keine Ruhe wie dem anderen. Die Toten haben immer recht.