Ship of Fools - The Journey Through Adolescence and Beauty
Lowenthal:
How old are you?
Elsa:
Sixteen.
Lowenthal:
Adolescence. What is adolescence? Adolescence is a time when people worry about things there's no need to worry about. Sixteen... I promise you, at seventeen you will be even more charming than you are now. At twenty-one, you will be gorgeous. And at twenty-five... devastating! And I won't stand any arguments!
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Ship of Fools - Cultural Identity and Personal Connection to Music
Lowenthal:
Listen to that music, Glocken. Don't try to tell me you don't react to that music.
Glocken:
Schmulz.
Lowenthal:
Hmph, tell me, Glocken, now honestly, when you hear that music, wherever you are, don't you have a special feeling about being a German?
Glocken:
I'll tell you, Leaven's honor, honestly, when I hear that music, wherever I am, I have a special feeling about being a dwarf.
Lowenthal:
Ah, I remember being thousands of miles from home in a movie theater in New York; they put on a picture of the funeral of the Kaiserin Victoria. That good woman, how much she meant to all of us.
Glocken: [rolls eyes]
You are German, aren't you? You are the most German person I have ever met.
Lowenthal: [chuckles]
Oh, I want to show you something. I take it out every once in a while and look at it when I want to feel good.
Glocken:
Well, the order of the Iron Cross, second class - and a war hero besides. You may be the biggest fool on this whole boat.
Lowenthal: [looks offended]
Why do you say that?
Glocken:
Where have you been during this voyage?
Lowenthal: [[Goethe; [Beethoven; [Bach]
Do you think this boat is a cross-section of the German people? Huh, no. You don't know the average German the way I know him. The people that produced a ], a ], and a ] are not to be sneezed at, you know.
Glocken:
Fifty percent of the people who produced a Goethe, a Beethoven, and a Bach voted for Rieber's party last week!
Lowenthal:
Forty-four percent.
Glocken:
Lowenthal, you are blind; you're absolutely blind! You can't see what's going on in front of your own face.
Lowenthal:
What do you mean? Ah, you mean this business about the Jews? You don't understand us. The German-Jew is something special. We are Germans first and Jews second. We have done so much for Germany; Germany has done so much for us. A little patience, a little good will; it works itself out. Huh, listen, there are nearly a million Jews in Germany. What are they going to do? Kill all of us?
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Ship of Fools - Navigating Prejudice with Understanding and Resilience
Freytag:
Doesn't it bother you that you and that little man are the only two Germans not at the Captain's Table?
Lowenthal:
Do you think that bothers me? Besides, I like that little man; what kind of salesman do you think I would be if I couldn't deal with a situation like that? A salesman is supposed to deal a difficult situation and overcome it. Listen, it's not a new story: white men hate black men, Muslims hate Buddhists-that's the way it goes. There's prejudice everywhere. It does no good to give it back. You have got to use your noggin'.
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Ship of Fools - Friendship Across Minority Boundaries
Lowenthal:
You aren't Jewish, are you?
Glocken:
No. I have my own minority group.
Lowenthal:
They usually leave a Jew a table of his own, on a boat like this. Why do you think they put us together?
Glocken:
It's their way of being friendly.
Lowenthal:
You are sure, you are not Jewish?
Glocken: [makes iffy hand gesture]
Reasonably sure.
Lowenthal:
You resemble a brother-in-law of mine in Stuttgart.
Glocken: [chuckles]
That's the way it is, people are always mistaking me for someone else.
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Ship of Fools - Historical Misfortunes and Scapegoating in Dialogue
Rieber:
Lowenthal, you know it is a historical fact that the Jews are the basis of our misfortunes.
Lowenthal:
Of course.
Rieber:
You agree?
Lowenthal:
Of course. The Jews and the bicycle riders.
Rieber:
The bicycle riders? Why the bicycle riders?
Lowenthal:
Why the Jews?
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Ship of Fools - Finding Goodness in Everyone
Lowenthal:
I like people; if you look for it, you can find something good in anybody.
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