Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
Was there ever a war where only one side bled?
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.
In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler. ’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods. ’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours. ’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.
South Sudan is one of the most hard-put places in the world.
I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.
I don't hate anybody. The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They're suing me because for the first time in their lives, the world didn't work the way it was supposed to for them.