Preston Fleming > Quotes

“Every end justifies the means? —No! The end justifies all the means? —No!  Every end justifies all the means? —No, never!” —Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel”
― Preston Fleming, Forty Days at Kamas

“Maid of Baikal tells the story of how the White Russian Armies might have deserved to win the Russian Civil War, and thus might have won, in a better world than ours. For despite the Whites’ manifold sins, the best among them strived mightily to achieve a free and democratic Russia, and most of these suffered a worse fate than what they deserved. --Preston Fleming”
― Preston Fleming, Maid of Baikal

“Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.”  —Hannah Arendt, philosopher and Holocaust scholar”
― Preston Fleming, Forty Days at Kamas

“Each man’s destiny is different, Paul,” Gallucci continued. “Sometimes it calls for action, sometimes a change in attitude, and sometimes simply suffering and acceptance. When it’s suffering, you have to remember that your own pain is totally unique in the universe. Nobody can relieve you of it or suffer it in your place. It’s the way you bear it that gives your life its special meaning. “Dostoyevsky once wrote that there was only one thing that he dreaded: not to be worthy of his sufferings. The way I see it, what determines whether a man is worthy or not are the choices he makes. No matter how desperate the conditions, no matter how great the suffering, no one can deprive you of that last inner freedom to choose your attitude toward life.”
― Preston Fleming, Forty Days at Kamas

“The end justifies the means? If you are faced with tyranny, do not hesitate to say: Yes! Every end justifies the means? —No! The end justifies all the means? —No!  Every end justifies all the means? —No, never!” —Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel”
― Preston Fleming, Forty Days at Kamas

“Funny, it seems as if everything Ron once loved is against the law. Guns, whiskey, cigars, fast cars, making money, and probably half the books in our library. I don’t suppose there’s a black market in banned books, is there?” “Don’t even think about it,” Werner answered. “Burn them.”
― Preston Fleming, Star Chamber Brotherhood

“Freedom is an odd, uncomfortable feeling when you have gone without it for long. We hardly knew what to do with ourselves without being ordered around.”
― Preston Fleming, Forty Days at Kamas

“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”  —Haile Selassie, former Emperor of Ethiopia”
― Preston Fleming, Forty Days at Kamas

“A Unionist will always sympathize with the bum, the blowhard, and the black sheep and blame all his troubles on the mean, humorless uncaring ant.”
― Preston Fleming, Forty Days at Kamas

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― Preston Fleming, Exile Hunter

“Vodka is the anesthetic by which we endure life’s painful operations. In times like these, may our supplies never run short!”
― Preston Fleming, Maid of Baikal