Drishya

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. For Langdon, the meaning of these words had never felt so clear: In dangerous times, there is no sin greater than inaction.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“We do not like those who are completely available, who make themselves over to us entirely. They crowd us out. They make us feel uneasy.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club

“The attackers had used one of the oldest and most potent weapons of warfare: surprise.”
― Mitchell Zuckoff, 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been broken at any point during the five weeks of crisis that preceded the first clash of arms, had prudence or common goodwill found a voice; tragic because the consequences of the first clash ended the lives of ten million human beings, tortured the emotional lives of millions more, destroyed the benevolent and optimistic culture of the European continent and left, when the guns at last fell silent four years later, a legacy of political rancour and racial hatred so intense that no explanation of the causes of the Second World War can stand without reference to those roots.”
― John Keegan, The First World War