Patrick Schreiner

Guillotine Out of Any Principle

In Quotes, Short on 01/09/2012 at 8:12 AM

I wish I would have heard this in college, and it would probably be wise to heed it now.

he saw evidence of the ‘vices of German youth: they make a guillotine out of any principle they hardly understand, and chop off heads with it indiscriminately.’

Eberhard Busch, Karl Barth: His life from letters and autobiographical texts, trans. John Bowden (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975), 203.

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