Evadne Price quotes
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“fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life.”
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“If the submarines, the aerial torpedoes, the poison gas, the liquid fire, the long-distance guns, the hand grenades, the trench mortars, and all the other things injure without killing them, they are sent back again and again after being patched up until they are killed.”
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“war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.”
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“all the ideals and beliefs you ever had have crashed about your gun-deafened ears - you don't believe in God or them or the infallibility of England or anything but bloody war and wounds and foul smells and smutty stories and smoke and bombs and lice and filth and noise, noise, noise - you live in a world of cold sick fear, a dirty world of darkness and despair - you want to crawl ignominiously home away from these painful writhing things that once were men, these shattered, tortured faces that dumbly demand what it's all about in Christ's name ...”
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“It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.”
Source : ALAN PATON (1968). “Cry, the Beloved Country”
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“When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.”
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“To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”
Source : Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press
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“It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.”
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