"Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous areâ€¦the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions."

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Primo Levi

#Believe Quotes #Asking Questions Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.”
“This was how you wound up in the Inquisition. When you stopped being able to see any difference between Light Ones and Dark Ones. When for you, people weren't even a flock of sheep, but just a handful of spiders in a glass jar. When you stopped believing in the future, and all you wanted to do was preserve the status quo. For yourself. For those few individuals who were still dear to you.”
“The British invasion certainly made a lot of noise in the record industry.”

Source : "Rock and Roll". "In The Groove", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.
“You can buy life only with life.”
“Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.”

Source : Kristen Britain (2011). “The High King's Tomb”, p.275, Hachette UK
“Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.”
“I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.”
“No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!”

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