If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopianprinciple -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness.
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This quote is just one of 9 total Gunter Grass quotes in our collection. Gunter Grass is known for saying 'If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness.' as well as some of the following quotes.
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
This quote is just one of 9 total Gunter Grass quotes in our collection. Gunter Grass is known for saying 'If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness.' as well as some of the following quotes.