Georg Brandes Quotes
The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
Brandes, Georg. The World at War. Translated by Catherine D. Groth, The Macmillan Company, 1917.
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Trumbo was morally opposed to war. He also refused to name Hollywood communists to Congressional Committees during the Red Scare. He was then blacklisted from his occupation, screen writing.
Shelly was a reformer and admired Jesus Christ and his preaching. However, he was an opponent of organized religion and was an atheist himself.
Prior to this question, Thomas had not been called on at a White House press conference for 3 years. After it, she was again avoided.
Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who greatly influenced Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture. At the age of 30, Brandes formulated the principles of a new realism and naturalism, condemning hyper-aesthetic writing and also fantasy in literature. His literary goals were shared by some other authors, among them the Norwegian "realist" playwright Henrik Ibsen.
