“Marie always had a head-ache on hand for any conversation that did not exactly suit her.”
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
― Uncle Tom’s Cabin
“You can’t run from the way you feel.” ”
― Dark Eyes: White Lies
― Dark Eyes: White Lies
“It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.”
― The Help
― The Help
“Nietzsche, with his grotesque exaggeration, goes much further. The strong men, the masters, regain the pure conscience of a beast of prey; monsters filled with joy, they can return from a fearful succession of murder, arson, rape and torture with the same joy in their hearts, the same contentment in their souls as if they had indulged in some student’s rag… When a man is capable of commanding, when he is by nature a “Master,” when he is violent in act and gesture, of what importance are treaties to him?… To judge morality properly, it must be replaced by two concepts borrowed from zoology: the taming of a beast and the breeding of a specific species.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
― The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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