Daniel Muresan

“As individuals, we have a moral obligation no to endanger others, and that can mean endangering others with a gun, with a car, or with a virus. If a person has reason to believe that he or she may be a carrier, that person has a moral duty to be tested for AIDS; human decency requires it. And the reason is very simple: Innocent people are being infected by this virus, and some of them are going to acquire AIDS and die.”
― H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life

“H.G. Wells, who recognized in the policies of Lenin and even Stalin something familiar and sympathetic: social engineering from above by those who know best.”
― Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

“He quoted William Penn: "If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants." And Thomas Jefferson: "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." And George Washington: "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
― H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life

“Does Europe not realize, wrote the exiled Romanian Mircea Eliade in April 1952, that she has been amputated of a part of her very flesh? "For... all these countries are in Europe, all these peoples belong to the European community.”
― Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945