Devin

“You see,” said Tailor Schwenke, the littlest of my ten little men, “there was always a secret war against Hitler in the regime. They fought him with unfair means. Himmler I detested. Goebbels, too. If Hitler had been told the truth, things would have been different.” For “Hitler” read “I.”
― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

“But you know what’s worse than suffering? Not suffering, because you’re not even alive to feel it.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“No—how widely was the whole thing, or anything, known?” “Oh. Widely, very widely.” “How?” “Oh, things seeped through somehow, always quietly, always indirectly. So people heard rumors, and the rest they could guess. Of course, most people did not believe the stories of Jews or other opponents of the regime. It was naturally thought that such persons would all exaggerate.”
― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

“It was a DuPont-funded scientist who first articulated the principle that now forms the bedrock of our system for regulating potentially toxic substances—namely, that they should be presumed safe until proven otherwise.”
― Mariah Blake, They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals