"If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then thereâ€™s nothing that you cannot justify. Thereâ€™s nothing you canâ€™t survive, because thereâ€™s nothing that you will not do."

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Source : Emily St. John Mandel (2014). “Station Eleven: A novel”, p.141, Vintage

Emily St. John Mandel

#Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.”
“Make health care a right, not a privilege.”
“The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.”
“The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.”
“We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.”
“Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky! For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!”
“Death by hanging... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.”

Source : "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.
“The water trading mechanism where there are transparent trades of water allocations is one that is good for us to learn from because it does allow for the marketplace to procure water for the highest and most efficient uses with the highest value in agriculture. And that might be a good model for us.”

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