Michael Kallan

“Where imaginary mole hills turn into hallucinatory mountains”
― Roland Huntford, The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole

“...for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.”
― Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

“Violence is not confidence, and terror is not mastery.”
― Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

“Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.”
― Ben Macintyre, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory