"It is true that all of us are the beneficiaries of crimes committed by our ancestors, and it is true that nothing can be done about that now because the victims are dead and the survivors are innocent. These are good reasons for keeping our mouths shut about the past: but tell me, what are our reasons for silence about atrocities still to come?"

-- Damon Knight

#Past Quotes #Silence Quotes #Atrocities Quotes

“The arts not only imbue our sense of sight, balance, movement, touch and hearing, they also lift our logical minds - the traditional focus of modern education - into the reaches of possibility, invention and genius.”
“Humor is an attitude, a survivorâ€™s way of looking at life. Itâ€™s not about telling jokes.”
“I think if the extremists were happy with my films, I'd start to worry.”
“So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.”
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.”
“Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.”

Source : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.8, Broadway Books
“Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.”
“Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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