“I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience.”
Christopher Vokes (1904–1985) Canadian general
The Occupation, p. 208
Vokes - My Story (1985)
“I was not going to go to bed forever with his unwarranted death on my conscience.”
Christopher Vokes (1904–1985) Canadian general
The Occupation, p. 208
Vokes - My Story (1985)
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross (1902–2003) British politician
Statement as UK prosecutor at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials (1945), as quoted in The Nuremberg Trials (1983) by Ann Tusa and John Tusa, ISBN 0815412622
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record (1970) edited by Leopold Labedz (1970) “The Struggle Intensifies".
Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”
Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Variant: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Source: The Kite Runner
Jerome David Salinger book Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (1963), Seymour: An Introduction (1959)
Albert Camus book The Plague
The Plague (1947)
Context: There always comes a time in history when the person who dares to say that 2+2=4 is punished by death. And the issue is not what reward or what punishment will be the outcome of that reasoning. The issue is simply whether or not 2+2=4.