Daniel

“People could behave how they liked, but Allan considered that in general it was quite unnecessary to be grumpy if you had the chance not to.”
― Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

“Despite the benefits of fire, 150,000 years ago humans were still marginal creatures. They could now scare away lions, warm themselves during cold nights, and burn down the occasional forest.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf