Firstthey Killed Quotes & Sayings

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things. — Henry Ford

I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan. — Dan Simmons

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged. — Henry Giroux

As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation. — Francois Fenelon

Even the most complex problem is resolved in the end. Because if there's a question, there also is an answer. — Kim Joon

Abbey: Did you speak to me in a different language? When I was in the hospital?
Caspian: Something to keep the nightmares at bay. To let you know I was there. Tu sei una stella ... la mia stella. It means 'You're a star. My star. — Jessica Verday

But heart's desires? My dear, I see by your misery - by this very request you are making - that you know more of true men's and women's hearts than once you did, than your mother's world permitted you to see. Such chipped and cracked and outright broken things they are, are they not? They have their illnesses too, and their impulses. And hearts are not always connected well to minds, and even if they are, minds are not always clear and commonsensical. A heart may desire a thing powerfully indeed, but that heart's desire might be what a person least needs, for her health, for her continuing happiness. — Margo Lanagan

I have lived
in my body
for years
and still need
maps and lights
to find my way
to how I feel. — K.Michelle

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present. — Moses Mendelssohn

A lotta good things about you, honey. One of them is that Ethan's pickin' up your vocabulary. Swear to Christ, before Conner took him to school today, he said he was vexed about something and if I got it right, he used it right seein' as he was annoyed. — Kristen Ashley

Let's go to the cafeteria," Will says, "and eat cake. — Veronica Roth

It's harder for me to work on a Forrest Gump kind of movie, where everything is invisible. — Dennis Muren

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives. — Rebecca Solnit

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world. — Andrei Platonov