Norma Wright > Norma's Quotes

“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others...Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever.”
― Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise

“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”
― Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise

“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
― Howard Zinn

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
― Howard Zinn

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
― Howard Zinn

“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
― Howard Zinn

“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
― Voltaire

“War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
― Anonymous

“A quiet conscience makes one strong!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl