Elfriede Jelinek Quotes
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
Jelinek, Elfriede. The Piano Teacher. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel, Grove Press, 1988.
The Church of Scientology has repeatedly been accused of fraudulent activities masking as a religion, taking advantage of the United States Constitution protection of freedom of religion. Many religions raise money—tax free—and the government has no right to audit their books. However some people form religions / cults mainly for the economic profits they can make. The evidence in this hearing seemed to indicate that this was the case for the creation of Scientology. Other countries treat Scientology as nothing but a consumer fraud and do not allow its operation or severely restricts it. The officials of the church protest vehemently that this is religious persecution. See {585647} .
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She is one of the most decorated authors writing in German today and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". Next to Peter Handke and Botho Strauss she is considered to be the most important living playwright of the German language.
