Ramon Mirabal

“Es mentira, por tanto, que Hitler consiguiera el acceso al poder por el voto popular —en realidad era consciente de que su apoyo electoral comenzaba a decaer—, sino que lo hizo con el consentimiento de un parlamento del que estaban ausentes la mayor parte de los diputados de izquierda, expulsados de él por el terror policíaco. Desde aquel momento el Reichstag se convirtió en un mero elemento decorativo, que le renovó los poderes excepcionales en 1937, 1939 y 1943, y que en los seis años que transcurrieron hasta el inicio de la guerra no llegó a votar más que siete leyes. En”
― Josep Fontana, El siglo de la revolución: Una historia del mundo desde 1914 (Serie Mayor)

“(which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29).”
― John Derbyshire, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

“Perhaps the most shocking element in the whole story of Unit 731 was MacArthur’s agreement, after the Japanese surrender, to provide immunity from prosecution to all involved, including General Ishii. This deal allowed the Americans to obtain all the data they had accumulated from their experiments. Even after MacArthur had learned that Allied prisoners of war had also been killed in the tests, he ordered that all criminal investigations should cease. Soviet requests to prosecute Ishii and his staff at the Tokyo War Crimes tribunal were firmly rejected.”
― Antony Beevor, The Second World War

“A country where tertiary education is low would not have a population capable of working with the most advanced technology. Nor are scientific and technological advances capable of being achieved today by people with no advanced education.”
― Partha Dasgupta, Economics: A Very Short Introduction