"We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly."

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Source : Radio address on July 28, 1942. "Bishop George Bell: House of Lords Speeches and Correspondence with Rudolf Hess". Book edited by Peter K. Raina, api.parliament.uk. 2009.

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

#War Quotes #Order Quotes #Cities Quotes

“She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.”
“My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to be a problem for children to be fat, but it does affect you: you aren't as happy in that skin.”
“Obedience is a part of greatness.”
“You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.”
“If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.”
“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyesâ€”never!”

Source : Mikhail Bulgakov (1967). “The master and Margarita [by] Mikhail Bulgakov”
“I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.”
“Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.”

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