Orderic Vitalis quotes

“Set out on pilgrimage and triumph gloriously over the infidels in the East.”
-- Orderic Vitalis

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“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”

“Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.”

“I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.”

“Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.96, Granta Books

“Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.”

“I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'”

“The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

“It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.”

“Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.”

“To commit suicide is easy. To live without a god is more difficult. The drunkenness of triumph is greater than the drunkenness of sacrifice.”