Oscar

“Those who crusade not for God in themselves but against the devil in others, never succeed in leaving the world better, but leave it as it was or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was before the crusade began.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun

“Politics is a luxury reserved for the well-fed.”
― Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

“Freedom is not something you get as a present," said Pietro. "You can live in a dictatorship and be free-on one condition: that you fight the dictatorship. The man who thinks with his own mind and keeps it uncorrupted is free. The man who fights for what he thinks is right is free. But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within your-self, you're not free. Even without any violent coercion, you're a slave. You can't beg your freedom from some-one. You have to seize it - everyone as much as he can.”
― Ignazio Silone, BREAD & WINE

“It will soon be all over—a few more uneasy breathings-and I shall be at rest. I am glad—for the world and I were never good friends; I am sure that if we could know, before we were born, what life really is, we should never take the trouble to live!”
― Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan; Or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire; a Romance Volume 2