Dementors Quote by Anonymous

The aspiring tyrants of today have not forgotten the lesson of 1933: that acts of terror - real or fake, provoked or accidental -…

— Timothy D. Snyder

“That people were manifold creatures didn't come as a surprise to the Swede, even if it was a bit of a shock to realize…

— Philip Roth

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale…

— A. N. Wilson

“They would have blown his brain to pieces before they could reclaim it. The heretical thought would be unpunished, unrepented, out of their reach…

— George Orwell

“Anyway, these ideas or feelings or ramblings had their satisfactions. They turned the pain of others into memories of one’s own. They turned pain,…

— Roberto Bolaño

“All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in late autumn—all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt they could never drag themselves out of…

— Camus Albert

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or…

— Terry Pratchett

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin…

— Oscar Wilde

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing…

— Mira Sorvino

“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well…

— Susan Sontag