. Ruth

“Aushwitze itself remains explicable. The most profound statement yet made upon Aushwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.

The query, 'At Aushwitze, tell me, where was God?'

And the answer: 'Where was man?”
― William Styron, Sophie’s Choice

“it’s not we who control money, it’s the money that controls us. When there’s only a little, it behaves meekly; when it grows, it becomes brash and has its way with us.”
― Vivek Shanbhag, Ghachar Ghochar

“there is a kind of business, called Government service, which allows men to treat other men as things without having human brotherly relations with them; and that they should be so linked together by this Government service that the responsibility for the results of their deeds should not fall on any one of them individually.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“To despise flowers is to offend God.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip