"One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage."

-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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“Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.”

Source : Jonathan Maberry (2014). “Fire & Ash”, p.241, Simon and Schuster
“I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.92, New York Review of Books
“The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.”
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

Source : Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”
“It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.”
“The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline.”
“Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.”

Source : Quoted in M Korda Power in the Office (1976).

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