Donato R. Vytiaco > Donato's Quotes

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
― George Washington

“This is a book in which we will dance with language, not a book in which we will trudge toward remedial correctness.”
― Brooks Landon, Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read