festival quotes

We had won† I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year. Something like a festival.

- Maya originally MayaJohnson Angelou
  On the end of  World War II. Gather Together In My Name, prologue.

Death is the supreme Festival on the road to freedom.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  Letter, collected in Widerstand und Ergebung (1951, translated1953).