"Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream."

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Source : David Gemmell (2011). “Bloodstone”, p.150, Del Rey

David Gemmell

#Boys Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Men Quotes

“Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain.”
“The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself.”
“Can a president whoâ€™s presided over, and possibly encouraged, Chinese-style surveillance of The Land of the Free honestly expect to serve out his full term?”
“If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.”

Source : "Interview: René Redzepi" by Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2010.
“I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.”
“Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.”
“Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The irony is that they are appealing to normal people to buy the product because they want them to identify with an exotic life that they don't lead.”
“If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.”

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