““What had he said to them? "I bow my knees before the country, before the masses, before the whole people…" And what then? What happened to these masses, to this people? For forty years it had been driven through the desert, with threats and promises, with imaginary terrors and imaginary rewards. But where was the Promised Land? Did there really exist any such goal for this wandering mankind? That was a question to which he would have liked an answer before it was too late. Moses had not been allowed to enter the land of promise either, But he had been allowed to see it, from the top of the mountain, spread at his feet. Thus, it was easy to die, with the visible certainty of one's goal before one's eyes. He, Nicolas Salmanovitch Rubashov, had not been taken to the top of a mountain; and wherever his eye looked, he saw nothing but desert and the darkness of night.””
![“Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.” quote by Max Anders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/33f/max-anders-2957_adversity_moses-warned-them-israelites-that-the-le_1250060.jpg)
![“[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8f/nat-hentoff-1615_arthur_arthur-koestler-wrote-some-other-very-in_1368211.jpg)
![“I was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who ordinarily I respected a lot; Philip Berrigan; the guy who teaches at Princeton still - I can't remember his name. And they were saying - well, they were saying, really, what Arthur…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/162/nat-hentoff-1615_angry_i-was-less-angry-at-carl-armstrong-thoug_2131420.jpg)
