E. T. A. Hoffmann Quotes
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
Hoffmann, E. T. A. The Serapion Brethren. Translated by Alexander Ewing, vol. 1, George Bell and Sons, 1886, p. 112.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. In the beginning of the 21st century, most Republicans had actually signed a pledge never to raise any taxes. Many of them might have thought better of the idea of they had read this quotation as freedom for them is a very important thing.
She pointed out that the contribution that demographics make to determine intolerance is small when compared with the personality characteristics of the individual. So uneducated white males or Christian Evangelists have much tolerance variability within those groups. Some have authoritarian personalities and these tend to be the intolerant people.
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. He is also the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler. See also Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12.
