James Creechan > James's Quotes

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
― Primo Levi

“Academic politics can be notoriously petty, but Oppenheimer was confronted by several paradoxes peculiar to the Institute. By the nature of their discipline, mathematicians invariably do their best intuitive work in their twenties or early thirties—whereas historians and other social scientists often need years of studious preparation before they became capable of genuinely creative work.”
― Kai Bird, American Prometheus

“Every genocide has its own particular characteristics, and every hated group is hated in its own special way.”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

“We must now ask this: What if full-blown fascism is not the monster at the door, but the monster inside the house, the monster inside us—even we whose ancestors have been victims of genocide?”
― Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World