Tara Dene

“τέτλαθι δή, κραδίη: καὶ κύντερον ἄλλο ποτ᾽ ἔτλης.
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Be patient, my heart: for you have endured things worse than this before.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“The other nine, decent, hard-working, ordinarily intelligent and honest men, did not know before 1933 that Nazism was evil. They did not know between 1933 and 1945 that it was evil. And they do not know it now. None of them ever knew, or now knows, Nazism as we knew and know it; and they lived under it, served it, and, indeed, made it. As”
― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

“In the body politic as in the body personal, nonresistance to the milder indulgences paves the way for nonresistance to the deadlier.”
― Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45