"Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process."

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Source : "The Perils of Obedience," Harper's Magazine, 1974.

Stanley Milgram

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“I represented the 4th District of South Carolina... from the election '92 until election '98. And then I was out six years and then came back for another six years between the election 2004 and the election 2010.”
“It is astonishing that Monod's Les Adieux are not better known. This courageous French Reformed pastor was both passionate in his care for people and singular in his devotion to God.”
“I have voices in my head, but they're all speaking Spanish, and I have NO idea what they're saying.”
“I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.”

Source : Raymond Smullyan (1983). “Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies”, p.88, Macmillan
“After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.”

Source : Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”

Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “In a Free State”, p.162, Pan Macmillan
“Friendship is something that is cultivated.”
“Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it.”

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