Bachtelldes Quotes & Sayings

House of pleasure, how may I orally please you? she purred, recognizing the number. — Eve Langlais

The consensus in Holocaust and genocide studies is that the systems that make mass murder possible would not function without the broad participation of society, and yet nearly all histories of the Holocaust leave out half of those who populated that society, as if women's history happens somewhere else. It is an illogical approach and puzzling omission. The dramatic stories of these women reveal the darkest side of female activism. They show what can happen when women of varied backgrounds and professions are mobilized for war and acquiesce in genocide. — Wendy Lower

It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges. — Booker T. Washington

But why in the world do we need money, if all we ever do is keep working? — Arkady Strugatsky

There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in the most unlikely places. Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become an evocation, a possibility for resemblance. Perhaps this is what is meant by that brief and now almost archaic word: elegy — Hisham Matar

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little. — Peter Carey