Subhash Chandra B

“No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

“It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

“I think I would rather just live my life,” Teddy said, “not make an artifice of it.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi