Martin Kippenberger Quotes

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

People must help one another. It is nature's law.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

We have lost the art of sharing and caring.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

That's the most gratifying thing in the world, helping each other.

I think this life is hard without assistance from others.

I just always assume no one is listening.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.