David R. Dowdy

“If I had had more time, a few more detective sergeants to go into the neighborhoods, it might have been different. Individuals might have opened had they been given the chance. People knew the truth, but the walls of their self-preservation were too thick. Why won’t people try to destroy a system that’s killing them?”
“Because, if you’re a fish, said Haynes, “and you live in a fishbowl, you have a duty to preserve the fishbowl. No matter how much you hate it, you never dart at it too hard. You don’t dare.”
― David Dowdy

“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”
― Dean Koontz

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“The man who is alone, who stands on his own feet, who is stripped bare, who asks for nothing and wants nothing, who has reached the apex of disinterested­ness not through blind renunciation but through ex­cess of clear vision, turns to the world which stretches out before him as a burned prairie, as a devastated city —a world in which no churches, asylums, refuges, ideals, are left—and says: “Though you promise me nothing I am still with you, I am still an atom of your energies, my work is part of your work; I am your companion and your mirror as you march on your merciless way.”
― Giovanni Papini, Un uomo finito