D. H. Lawrence Quotes
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'.
Lawrence, D. H. The Letters of D. H. Lawrence. Edited by James T. Boulton, vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 1979, p. 81.
In the next two years 50,000 non-Jewish, ill Germans were killed in hospital gas chambers disguised as shower rooms as the Germans later did with the Jews in the concentration camps.
The “logic” of the Japanese was that by eliminating “troublemakers” (those objecting to the Japanese invasion) the lives of other Chinese were saved. This extended to rape and murder of women, beheading of boys and men—civilians and military—and destruction of infants.
This is the earliest surviving attempt of the Romans to formulate a legal code.
David Herbert Lawrence was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His works include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover.
