Anton > Anton's Quotes

“Venus planet of love, rare as radium pure as platinum more precious than gold.”
― Edward Abbey, Hayduke Lives!

“Indeed the word ‘bigot’ was originally a Parisian insult for Normans, and came from their habit of using the Germanic oath ‘bei Gott’ or ‘by God’.”
― Ed West, 1066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

“Politicians could talk about building walls and changing laws to keep people out, but in the end they were just symbols. Neither would stop the tide any more than the rock jetties at the mouth of the port did. Nothing could stop the tide of hope and desire.”
― Michael Connelly, The Wrong Side of Goodbye

“people who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.”
― Tom Clancy, The Cardinal of the Kremlin

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil ... To not speak is to speak. To not act is to act. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris

“Think of all the great journalism we’ve seen in our lifetimes. The corruption exposed, the public benefit. Where’s that going to come from now with every paper in the country getting shredded? Our government? No way. TV, the blogs? Forget it. My friend who took the buyout in Florida says corruption will be the new growth industry without the papers watching.”
― Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow

“killed the engine”
― Michael Connelly, Fair Warning

“It was like making and executing policy inside a pinball machine, not the West Wing of the White House.”
― John R. Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

“2001 In the days and weeks following the attacks on 9/11, life returned to normal, but it felt wrong, like a favorite shirt worn inside out--still your shirt, still recognizable, but rubbing in all the wrong places, the seams revealed, the tags hanging out, the colors dulled, the words backward. But unlike the shirt, the sense of wrong couldn’t be righted. It was permanent, the new normal.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“There were certain things money definitely could not buy. Honesty. Integrity. Ethics.”
― Debra Webb, Trust No One

“The crucial source of ideological sabotage that subverted me and turned me into a little dissident was music.”
― Alexey Navalny, Patriot: A Memoir

“And if we resign and leave the field to them, sir? Then only the power-hungry assholes without a hint of moral conscience will be left in charge to trample all over the Constitution and the rights of every American.”
― David Baldacci, To Die For

“They exhibit a mainstream, reasonable-looking façade in many quarters to draw in as many ordinary folks as possible. And then they lead them down the rabbit hole conspiracy track, mostly on social media or in their indoctrination academies to capture the youth, until they’ll believe anything these people tell them. You see, even though our society is economically inequitable, the government does pass and enforce laws that try to keep some of that domination in check. And these people don’t like that.”
― David Baldacci, To Die For

“They want all the wealth and power, along with a population that looks the same, prays the same, speaks the same, and where white men dominate everything. Just like the KKK.”
― David Baldacci, To Die For