Frases de Clemens August von Galen

Clemens Augustinus Joseph Emmanuel Pius Antonius Hubertus Marie Graf von Galen ou Clemens August Kardinal Graf von Galen ou ainda Clemens August Graf von Galen foi um arcebispo alemão, criado cardeal pelo Papa Pio XII em 1946, e beatificado em 9 de outubro de 2005 pelo Papa Bento XVI. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Março 1878 – 22. Março 1946
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Clemens August von Galen: Frases em inglês

“And now go and serve your fatherland.”

von Galen, to the philosopher Josef Pieper when he went to say farewell to the bishop, having been drafted into the German army in 1943. Pieper remarked; I was somewhat baffled; it was a long time since I had heard such words, but on his lips they were by no means a mere pathetic cliché; he meant them in all seriousness;they were to be taken literally. See Beth A. Griech Polelle, Bishop Von Galen, p. 20.

“These unfortunate patients must die but rather because, in the opinion of some department, on the testimony of some commission, they have become 'worthless life' because according to this testimony they are 'unproductive national comrades.'”

The argument goes: they can no longer produce commodities, they are like an old machine that no longer works, they are like an old horse which has become incurably lame, they are like a cow which no longer gives milk.
Speech against Nazi euthanasia (August 3, 1941)