Halldór Laxness Quote

And when I say the world is governed by nothing but demons, who will continue to be demons until they have destroyed the world, I am not using profanities; on the contrary, demon is a scientific term, a formula covering a specific chemical composition without connotations from politics, religion, or moral philosophy.... Here among us on the lowest rung of the world of life, no attention is paid to books unless they are written by chemically analyzed demons, or at least for them. Poets and philosophers are respected in proportion to the contempt and disgust they feel for the creation of life. Give this day our daily war is the prayer of those who govern countries. Kill, kill, said the outlaw Skuggasveinn...


Kristnihald undir Jökli (Under the Glacier/Christianity at Glacier) (1968)


And when I say the world is governed by nothing but demons, who will continue to be demons until they have destroyed the world, I am not using...

And when I say the world is governed by nothing but demons, who will continue to be demons until they have destroyed the world, I am not using...

And when I say the world is governed by nothing but demons, who will continue to be demons until they have destroyed the world, I am not using...

And when I say the world is governed by nothing but demons, who will continue to be demons until they have destroyed the world, I am not using...