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The War of the Poor QUOTES

The War of the Poor QUOTES

1 " El martirio es una trampa para los oprimidos, sólo es deseable la victoria. Yo la contaré. "

― Éric Vuillard , The War of the Poor

2 " Concerning the end of Thomas Müntzer, there exists a legend of cowardice with many variants. Müntzer supposedly fled and hid and they found him and turned him over to Count von Mansfield and he was imprisoned in a dungeon and tortured and supposedly he recanted and implored the princes for money and dictated a contrite letter to the inhabitants of Mühlhausen. I don't believe a word of it. "

― Éric Vuillard , The War of the Poor

3 " And even if you don't give a shit whether or not the Chinese painter of rocks and birds had some mysterious kinship of the soul with the Landgrave of Hesse, fantasies are nonetheless one path to the truth. History is Philomela, and they raped her, or so they say, and cut her tongue, and she whistles at night from deep in the woods. "

― Éric Vuillard , The War of the Poor

4 " La gente quiere historias, aclaran las cosas, dicen; y cuanto más auténtica es la historia, más gusta. Pero las historias verídicas nadie sabe contarlas. Sin embargo, estamos hechos de historias, nos han criado junto a ellas desde la infancia: «¡Escuchad! ¡Leed! ¡Mirad!», hágase nuestra verdad, que nos toque en lo más vivo, que nos envíe lo más lejos posible mediante imágenes y palabras. "

― Éric Vuillard , The War of the Poor

5 " No me creo nada. En esas leyendas infames, la cerviz de los renegados sólo se doblega en el momento en que se les retira la palabra. Esas leyendas sólo pretenden que resuene en nosotros la voz que nos atormenta, la voz del orden, a la que en el fondo nos hallamos tan ligados que cedemos a sus misterios y le entregamos nuestras vidas. "

― Éric Vuillard , The War of the Poor

6 " Müntzer exhorted his men, screamed his confidence in God, tried to grab them by the sleeve, I don't know what he did, probably he shed tears, he raged. "

― Éric Vuillard , The War of the Poor

7 " Outside the borders of Saxony, hardly anyone knows Zwickau. It’s just another backwater. Zwicker means pince-nez; Zwickel means gusset; Zwiebel, onion; and zwiebeln, to harass or bully. But Zwickau means nothing, or else it means onionskin, poor slobs, good business, yes, that’s what Zwickau means: poor slobs and good business. "

― Éric Vuillard , The War of the Poor

8 " And so they began to realize they’d been lied to. They had long felt troubled and afflicted; there were many things they didn’t understand. They had a hard time understanding why God, the God of beggars, crucified between two thieves, needed such pomp. Why his ministers needed luxury of such embarrassing proportions. Why the God of the poor was so strangely on the side of the rich, always with the rich. Why his words about giving up everything issued from the mouths of those who had taken everything. "

― Éric Vuillard , The War of the Poor