Gertruda

“Nobody said not to go.”
― Emily Hahn

“Mintis tuojau pat vykti į Berlyną, per pačius karščius, aišku, trečia klase, kad nužudyčiau Hitlerį, ir visi su tuo susiję pasiruošimai, nervų įtampa bei nuovargis manęs visai nežavėjo. <...> Bemeilijau nužudyti fiurerį spalį, prasidėjus mokslo metams.”
― Romain Gary, Promise at Dawn

“In short, conquest is in no sense a necessary sign of higher human development, though conquistadors have always thought otherwise. Any valid concept of organic development must use the primary terms of ecology-cooperation and symbiosis-as well as struggle and conflict, for even predators are part of a food chain, and do not 'conquer' their prey except to eat them. The idea of total conquest is an extrapolation from the existing power system: it indicates, not a desirable end, accomodation, but a pathological aberration, re-enforced by such rewards as this system bestows. As for the climactic notion that "the universe will be man's at last"-what is this but a paranoid fantasy, comparable to the claims of an asylum inmate who imagines that he is Emperor of the World? Such a claim is countless light-years away from reality.”
― Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power

“Tuomet mes iš tikrųjų buvome pasiekę dugną - nesakau "prarajos", nes nuo tada patyriau, kad praraja dugno neturi ir kad mes visi galim mušti gylio rekordus, niekada neišsemdami tos įdomios institucijos galimybių.”
― Romain Gary, Promise at Dawn