Wayne Larson

“She had taken up the idea, she supposed, and made every thing bend to it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“It was decades later that Rubel confessed that this U.S. plan for nuclear war he participated in reminded him of the Nazis’ plans for genocide. In his memoir, he referred to a time in an earlier world war when a group of Third Reich officials met at a lakeside villa in a German town called Wannsee. It was there, over the course of a ninety-minute meeting, that this group of allegedly rational men decided among themselves how to move forward with the genocide in a war they were presently winning—World War II—so as to ensure total victory for themselves. Millions of people needed to die, these Reich officials agreed.”
― Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

“Be assured that the more progress you make in loving your neighbor, the greater will be your love for God.”
― Teresa de Ávila, The Interior Castle

“What annoyed the troops and augmented their sardonic, contemptuous attitude toward those who viewed them from afar was in large part this public innocence about the bizarre damage suffered by the human body in modern war.”
― Paul Fussell, Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War