Persecutions Illustration Quotes & Sayings

I know positively - yes Rieux I can say I know the world inside out as no one on earth is free from it. And I know too that we must keep endless watch on ourselves lest in careless moment we breathe in somebody's face and fasten the infection on him. What's natural is the microbe. All the rest- health integrity purity if you like - is a product of the human will of vigilance that must never falter. The good man the man who infects hardly anyone is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention. And it needs tremendous will-power a never ending tension of the mind to avoid such lapses. Yes Rieux it's a wearying business being plague-stricken. But it's still more wearying to refuse to be it. That's why everybody in the world today looks so tired everyone is more or less sick of plague. But that is also why some of us who want to get the plague out of their systems feel such desperate weariness a weariness from which nothing remains to set us free except death. — Albert Camus

God knows, we don't want prayer. — Oliver North

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not
completely trust anyone. — Ernest Hemingway,

For just as the virtue of wealth will bring out the evil of avarice, so will the evil of poverty bring out the virtue of self-respect. In this world, there is as much good that comes out of evil as ever stands by itself alone. This, in fact, is the need of evil, that out of it may lift the good. — Ernest Temple Thurston

Paris flared
Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice. — Emile Zola

They were all alone. Their voices had died like echoes of the words of God spoken and vibrating in the shared deep. — Ray Bradbury

We moved 23 times before I was out of high school! — Brian Herbert

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival. — Elie Tahari