Messiaens Louange Quotes & Sayings

Clearly anyone who wants to dismiss Eichmann's testimonies on the grounds of their demonstrated unreliability and shameless self-serving lies can easily do so, and many of my colleagues have done precisely this. But what if our default position is not to dismiss everything Eichmann said and wrote just because he was lying most of the time, but rather to ask what among this mass of lies might nonetheless be of help to the historian, given his unique vantage point and the sheer volume of his testimony?

-- Collected Memories: Holocaust and Postwar Testimony, page 11 — Christopher R. Browning

The real way of vanquishing scruples is to leave those who have them nothing to lose. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

This, for eternity. He closed his eyes and wished. Her eyelashes on his cheek, her thighs on his waist, the first consummation of this terrifying thing they'd done. Marriage meant forever. — Lauren Groff

Words ... have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being. — Kelly Creagh

What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline. — Theodor Adorno

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required. — Ramana Maharshi

Do not open that door until I'm in my room. I may be old and losing my hair, but I still want to look nice for a handsome man. — Rachel Hauck

If someone does not have a missions heart at home, nothing magical happens when they buckle the seat belt on the airplane. — David Sills

I believe he [Saddam Hussein] wants a better relationship with America. — Louis Farrakhan

Something began when the Guild of Assassins enrolled Mister Teatime, who saw things differently from other people, and one of the ways that he saw things differently from other people was in seeing other people as things (later, Lord Downey of the Guild said, "We took pity on him because he'd lost both parents at an early age. I think that, on reflection, we should have wondered a bit more about that"). — Terry Pratchett