Käthe Kollwitz
(1867-1945)

German Artist, Peace & Human Rights Advocate

birthdate: July 8
birthplace: Königsberg, Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia

QUOTES

"Every war already carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed. That is why I am wholeheartedly for a radical end to this madness...Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work."

"I am in the world to change the world."

"I would like to exert influence in these times when human beings are so perplexed and in need of help."

"One day, a new idea will arise and there will be an end to all wars. I die convinced of this. It will need much hard work, but it will be achieved."

"Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon? I am afraid that this soaring of the spirit will be followed by the blackest despair and dejection. The task is to bear it not only during these few weeks, but for a long time - in dreary November as well, and also when spring comes again, in March, the month of young men who wanted to live and are dead."

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

 

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