Hapgood Pond Quotes & Sayings

When I was in prison, I read an article - don't be shocked when I say I was in prison. You're still in prison. That's what America means: prison. — Malcolm X

Johann Clement watched the blows fall. First there had been wild talk and then printed accusations and insinuations. Then came a boycott of Jewish business and professional people, then the public humiliations: beatings and beard pullings. Then came the night terror of the Brown Shirts. Then came the concentration camps. Gestapo, SS, SD, KRIPO, RSHA. Soon every family in Germany was under Nazi scrutiny, and the grip of tyranny tightened until the last croak of defiance strangled and died. — Leon Uris

If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit. — Nirmala Srivastava

But I like sleepy. I like nothing-ever-happens. I buy the same chocolate bar from the same shop every day, next to our village pond with its minimalist duck population of three, and then I check the Holksea village newsletter with no news in it. It's comforting. I can wrap my whole life up in a blanket. — Harriet Reuter Hapgood

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding. — Alice Miller

But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
Whatever the Party holds
to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except
by looking through the eyes of the Party. — George Orwell

People are looking at us."
"Maybe it's because we're hot." I whip my head toward him. "What?" he asks all innocently. "We are". — Nyrae Dawn