"I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we." (Apocalypse Now)
"Wollen wir Befreiung? Wollen wir Erneuerung? Wollen wir, dass es anders werde. Wollen wir heraus aus diesem Strudel, aus diesem grauenvollen Mischmasch von niederstem Machtwillen und verworrenem, verratenem Idealismus? Wollen wir heraus aus dieser schwersten, wehesten Verfinsterung des Geistes, die je auf Erden war? Dies ist die einzige Frage an unser Leben. Heraus, gleichviel ob in Schönheit oder Hässlichkeit, in Ehre oder Schmach, ja selbst ob in Liebe oder Hass. Nur heraus: den großen, gellenden Schrei ausstoßen, der uns auf ewig trennte von dem Wollen der dumpf hinnehmenden Menge, der jede Gemeinschaft mit den dumpf treibenden Mächten unserer Zeit verwirft. Entscheidung für oder wider - dies ist heute die einzige Frage an unser Menschentum." (Margarete Susman, 1918)
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