I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even yet imagine? Joseph Goebbels
I did not come here [out of communist German Democratic Republic, to West-Germany] to get away from 'materialism'; here [in West –Germany] its dominance is far more total and more mindless. I came to get away from the criminal 'idealism' of the Socialists. Gerhard Richter
That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine... David Foster Wallace