Denis

“Unable to express his sense of shock and abhorrence openly, let alone to alter the course of events, he had to force his emotional response inwards where it grew into a gnawing and profound sense of shame.”
― Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms

“Politics matters, she said, because you don’t just implement other people’s decisions: you get to make them. That’s what democracy is about.”
― Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
― Eça de Queirós