Heinrich Heine Quotes
He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.
Heine, Heinrich. Religion and Philosophy in Germany: A Fragment. Translated by John Snodgrass, Trübner & Co., 1882, p. 88.
Calumnaire fortiter, et aliquid adhaerebit. See Pierre Beaumarchais for a later version of this political tactic.
In a 1980 South Carolina congressional campaign Democratic candidate Tom Turnipseed accused Atwater of masterminding anonymous phone calls to voters revealing the fact that, as a teenager, Turnipseed had received electroshock therapy. Atwater told the press:
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert. Heine's later verse and prose are distinguished by their satirical wit and irony. He is considered part of the Young Germany movement. His radical political views led to many of his works being banned by German authorities—which, however, only added to his fame. He spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
