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Behcet Kaya
“And, for a moment in time, I’d crossed the line over to evil and used some unethical interrogation techniques to bring him down. I was hoping for a few months of ‘down time.’ Time to reevaluate how I’d let myself cross that line and how to prevent it from ever happening again. Then there was my father. He was quickly succumbing to Alzheimer’s and I wanted to spend more time with him.”
Behcet Kaya, Body In The Woods

Aesop
“Una zorra que huía de unos cazadores, al ver a un leñador, le pidió que la escondiera. Éste le sugirió que entrase en su cabaña y se ocultase. No mucho después, se acercaron los cazadores y le preguntaron al leñador si había visto a una zorra pasar por allí. Aquél negó haberla visto, pero haciendo un gesto con la mano, les indicó dónde se ocultaba. Pero, como ellos no entendieran lo que se les apuntaba por señas y creyeran lo que decía, la zorra, al verlos retirarse, salió y se marchó sin decir nada. Cuando el leñador le reprochó que, aunque la había salvado, no le había dado ni las gracias, dijo: "Te las habría dado, si hubieses tenido las mismas actitudes y gestos con las manos que con tus palabras". De estas fábula se podría uno servir contra aquellos hombres que proclaman sin duda su honradez, pero con sus acciones cometen maldades.”
Esopo, Fábulas

Erin Morgenstern
“She is young enough to carry fear with her without letting it into her heart. Without being scared. She wears her fear lightly, like a veil, aware that there are dangers but letting the crackling awareness hover around her. It does not sink in, it buzzes in excitement like a swarm of invisible bees.”
Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

Todor Bombov
“… the primitive comprehension that the state property represents a social one, their identification, and their equalization  could not resist the criticism of the time. The state property is not socialism. The state-monopoly property, as it was on the both sides of the Berlin Wall and which continues to be such one even after it dropped down, is not social property. There was never and nowhere any socialism! In the twentieth century, we passed through a system of utopian socialism as proof that this was not socialism that was not possible, but the utopia of the writers before Marx and after Marx. We were visited by a utopian socialism, which at the contemporary stage is simply capitalism—state, monopolistic.”
Todor Bombov, Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code-Socialism with a Human Face

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