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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
Fischer, Ernst
Disasters

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Fischer, Ernst
Literature

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
Fischer, Ernst
Machinery

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus bringing fire from heaven to earth, will always be Orpheus enthralling nature with his music. Not until humanity itself dies will art die.
Fischer, Ernst
Humankind

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Fischer, Ernst
Arts and Artists