Anand

“Whether plagues are managed quickly doesn't just depend on hardworking doctors and scientists. It depends on people who like to sleep in on weekends and watch movies and eat French fries and do the fantastic common things in life, which is to say, it depends on all of us. Whether a civilization fares well during a crisis has a great deal to do with how the ordinary, nonscientist citizen responds. A lot of the measures taken against plagues discussed in this book will seem stunningly obvious. You should not, for instance, decide diseased people are sinners and burn them at a literal or metaphorical stake, because it is both morally monstrous and entirely ineffective. But them a new plague crops up, and we make precisely the same mistakes we should have learned from three hundred years ago.”
― Jennifer Wright, Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

“Formally and officially we are equal before the law, we enjoy the same rights as citizens but informally and unofficially that's another matter altogether”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“The big politicians escaped. They told us to kill but are now in five-star foreign prisons, with good food and televisions. We little people must bear the consequences for their decisions.”
― Anjan Sundaram

“No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity