Marc Kenton

“Change,” Octavia Butler wrote, “is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“Bereaved people, even those who have witnessed the apparently peaceful death of a loved one, often need to tell their story repeatedly, and that is an important part of transferring the experience they endured into a memory, instead of reliving it like a parallel reality every time they think about it.”
― Kathryn Mannix, With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

“Israel’s reliance on assassination as a military tool did not happen by chance, but rather stems from the revolutionary and activist roots of the Zionist movement, from the trauma of the Holocaust, and from the sense among Israel’s leaders and citizens that the country and its people are perpetually in danger of annihilation and that, as in the Holocaust, no one will come to their aid when that happens.”
― Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

“The Nuremberg Laws were a typical Hitlerian attempt to get out of a mess by taking a radical step, in effect a gamble, without thinking through the consequences.”
― David Cesarani, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949