"Old men make wars that young men may die."

“Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.”

“Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.”

“Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.”

Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

“Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.”

Source : Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.173, SUNY Press

“We are all evil in some form or another, are we not?”

“In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.”

“To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.”

“Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.”