"Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured."

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Source : "Cloud Atlas: A Novel".

David Mitchell

#Victory Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Accepted Quotes

“I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.”
“I believe in the fatal hairdo just for the love of saying fatal hairdo.”

Source : Lucia Perillo (2016). “Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems”, p.108, Copper Canyon Press
“[Prince Humperdinck] was seventy-five minutes away from his first female murder, and he wondered if he could get his fingers to her throat before even the start of a scream. He had been practicing on giant sausages all the afternoon and had the movements down pretty pat, but then, giant sausages werenâ€™t necks and all the wishing in the world wouldnâ€™t make them so.”
“Krakow the city of Kings, was no longer mine. I had become a foreigner in the place i had always called home”
“If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong.”
“From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.”
“...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not ***** this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.”
“I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.”

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