Freedom Rides 1965 Quotes & Sayings

The soldier doesn't usually act on his own initiative, he doesn't harbour feelings of hatred or resentment or jealousy, he isn't motivated by long-held desires or personal ambition; the only motivating force is a vague, rhetorical, empty patriotism, for those soldiers, that is, who are moved by such feelings or allow themselves to be convinced. — Javier Marias

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. — Thomas Huxley

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us. — Veronica Roth

Unlike those earlier occasions - mourning a lost affection of his youth - this time there is to be no imagining her altered features, her new occupations, no unknown rival or replacement upon whom to project a wild jealousy. For death takes everything, leaves behind no possibilities, save one - which is to remember. Adrian cannot believe with what intensity one can continue to love a person who is dead. Only fools, he believes, think that love is for the living alone. So he sits and watches the sea and thinks of Mamakay. — Aminatta Forna

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs — Alexander Hamilton