Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those …

- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.

- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

- Hans Magnus Enzensberger

I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature and function. As I…

- Hans Magnus Enzensberger