The simple idea that people should be allowed to worship as they wished caused more suffering than the ten plagues of Egypt.
You will make love to a fat Prussian general who will call you his Liebling.
The heart is that kind of map. The self is in the middle and everything else is out of proportion. You draw the friends of your youth large, then later it’s impossible to rescale them when other more important people need to be added. Anyone who has done you wrong is shown too big, and so is anyone you loved.
Her Protestant pastor had been sympathetic, until the Gestapo terrified him into silence. Perhaps the same would happen again. But she did not know what else to do. Heinrich took.
Texaco’s chairman, the Hitler-admiring Torkild Rieber, was using the company’s tankers to smuggle oil to the rebels in defiance of a specific request from President Roosevelt.
Growing up is learning to deceive.
If you’re going to have a fight, you might as well fight for what you really want.
An evident principle runs through the whole program,” Wilson had said. “It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak.” Tears had come to Gus’s eyes when he had read these words. “The people of the United States could act upon no other principle,” Wilson had said.
Fascism is a lie, but an alluring one”.
Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced.
As in every country, Walter thought gloomily, army officers were pressing their political masters to take the first steps to war. It.
People think they’re being saved from a Bolshevik revolution,” Frunze said. “The Nazi press has them convinced that the Communists were about to launch a campaign of murder, arson, and poison in every town and village.
That my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character – I have a dream today.
Fitz probably had half a dozen bastards around the world, but Ethel’s was the only one he knew of for sure.
They had just started their first scheduled air service. Planes went from Vienna to Kiev and back like railway trains. There would be a network of flights all over Europe after Germany won the war. And Walter and Maud would raise their children in a peaceful and well-ordered world.
A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.
Sabe que no es posible hacerlo todo, que hay que elegir las batallas que pueden ganarse.
But Wilson was an idealist who believed that the force of righteousness would overcome all obstacles. He underestimated the need to flatter, cajole, and seduce.
But you should go to bed.” “With your ladyship’s permission, I’d like to stay up until Lord Remarc telephones again.
Walli’s sister came into the room. Lili was almost three years younger, and these days he was not sure how to treat her. For as long as he could remember she had been a pain in the neck, like a younger boy but sillier. However, lately she had become more sensible and, to complicate matters, some of her friends had breasts.