Wenn die Demokratie sich fortlaufend perfektioniert, widerspiegelt die Präsidentschaft immer exakter die innere Seele des Volkes. Eines großen und glorreichen Tages wird sich der Herzenswunsch der einfachen Leute erfüllen und das Weisse Haus mit einem wahren Idioten und vollends narzisstischem Schwachkopf verziert sein. H. L. Mencken

As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron. (H. L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26th, 1920)


Yes, Minister Episode Five: The Writing on the Wall (BBC, 1980)

Hacker: I don't want the truth. I want something I can tell Parliament!
Sir Humphrey: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last five hundred years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?
Hacker: That's all ancient history, surely?
Sir Humphrey: Yes, and current policy. We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside. We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing — set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch... The Foreign Office is terribly pleased; it's just like old times.
Hacker: But surely we're all committed to the European ideal?
Sir Humphrey: [chuckles] Really, Minister.
Hacker: If not, why are we pushing for an increase in the membership?
Sir Humphrey: Well, for the same reason. It's just like the United Nations, in fact; the more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up, the more futile and impotent it becomes.
Hacker: What appalling cynicism.
Sir Humphrey: Yes... We call it diplomacy, Minister.


"Yes, Prime Minister: A Victory for Democracy (#1.6)" (1986)
James Hacker: Humphrey, I'm worried.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Oh, what about, Prime Minister?
James Hacker: About the Americans.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Oh yes, well, we're all worried about the Americans.


You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. (angeblich Winston Churchill)

Zur Wahl von Donald Trump zum Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten am 9. November 2016

Das beste Argument gegen den Brexit: Sir Humphrey erklärt die Europäische Union

Zwei Dinge sind zu unserer Arbeit nötig: Unermüdliche Ausdauer und die Bereitschaft, etwas, in das man viel Zeit und Arbeit gesteckt hat, wieder wegzuwerfen.

Albert Einstein



Fremde Feder

„Der Versuch, den Himmel auf Erden zu verwirklichen, produzierte stets die Hölle.“


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Arbeitsmoral

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in the backroom she was everybody's darling
But she never lost her head
even when she was giving head“

Lou Reed Walk on the Wild Side


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