Erich Maria Remarque Ideas Quotations

We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.