Marc Laderman

“American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“The best I can suggest is that when the Absolute manifested itself in the world evil was the natural correlation of good. You could never have had the stupendous beauty of the Himalayas without the unimaginable horror of a convulsion of the earth's crust. The Chinese craftsman who makes a vase in what they call eggshell porcelain can give it a lovely shape, ornament it with a beautiful design, stain it a ravishing colour and give it a perfect glaze, but from its very nature he can't make it anything but fragile. If you drop in on the floor it will break into a dozen fragments. Isn't possible in the same way that the values we cherish in the world can only exist in combination with evil?”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. ”
― George Orwell

“But man is made of iron, callous to suffering.”
― Judy Batalion, The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos