Ronel van Tonder > Ronel's Quotes

“I put my heroes through hell...”
― Anna Erishkigal

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
― Mark Twain

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“A government that trusts its people is powerful only if the people also trust their government. A government that does not trust its people is only powerful if it knows exactly what everyone is doing at all times.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Theta Timeline

“There was no better way to feel powerful than to make others feel powerless.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Theta Timeline

“You can’t appreciate the world you live in and know if it’s better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history.”
― Chris Dietzel, The Theta Timeline

“I am going to die. Sooner if not later. Tomorrow, if not fifty years later. That means I cannot waste time. I know I cannot help but waste time every now and then, but when I can I will make sure that every waking moment is spent in the pursuit of knowledge.”
― Salman Mehedy Titas

“Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. That's all we do. That's all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business."
pg 155, Way of Shadow”
― Brent weeks

“Colour began staining the sky, breathing life into the deathly shadows of dawn.”
― Ronel van Tonder, Compile: Quest

“Memories trickled through the pain as Onyx's eyes travelled down the tar road he knelt on. Its black, sour surface melted into the erratic horizon.”
― Ronel van Tonder, Compile: Quest

“Her mysteries had to be unravelled — so he would contain her until he’d dissected the truth of her and isolated her enigma.”
― Ronel van Tonder, Compile: Quest

“Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

“mass surveillance is a universal temptation for any unscrupulous power.”
― Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

“A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
― Jean Genet

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time