City of Endless Night Quotes

“The fear of darkness," I said, "is the fear of ignorance.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“The second form of government is a republic, sometimes called a democracy. It is usually co-existent with the lawyer, the priest, the family and the greed for gold. But in reality this government is by the rich men, who let the poor men vote and think they have a share in the government, thus to keep them contented with their poverty.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“I wandered on through the carnival of Berlin's Level of Free Women. Despite my longing for human companionship I found it difficult to join in this strange recrudescent paganism with any ease or grace.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“Napoleon said that if you tell men they are equal you can do as you please with them.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“As in all political and religious faiths founded on the ideas of dead heroes, this made for solidarity and power and quite prevented any adaptation of the form of government to the needs of the world that had arisen since his demise. I”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“But the German ass wore the blinders that science had made--and saw no angel. ~8~”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“We were merely not so completely civilized, because we had never been wholly domesticated.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“Evidently I was Karl Armstadt and very happily a chemical engineer by profession. My task of impersonation so far looked feasible--I could talk chemical engineering.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“If I am to make love to you I want to make love to a woman who is really free; a woman free to accept or reject love, not starved into accepting it in this so-called freedom.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“She looked at me dubiously. "You are either very queer," she said, "or else a very great liar.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“But you are to remain mistress of your own heart and your own person. You see, I believe there are ways to win a woman's love far better than buying her cheap when she is starved into selling in this brutal fashion.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“One side of this chamber was partitioned off with some sort of metal wall. The door stood blown open. It felt a little warmer in here and I entered and closed the door.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“The lure of unravelled secrets, the ambition for discovery and exploration stirred my boyish veins. Yes, I would know more of the strange race, the unknown life that surged beneath that grey blanket of mystery.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“My uncle had predicted correctly, for by the time I again came home on my vacation, the newly elected Pacifist Council had reduced the aerial activities to mere watchful patroling over the land of the enemy. Then came the report of an attempt to launch an airplane from the roof of Berlin. The people, in dire panic lest Ray generators were being carried out by German aircraft, had clamoured for the recall of the Pacifist Council, and the bombardment of Berlin was resumed.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“for men whose desire for liberty has been destroyed, liberty must be thrust upon them.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night

“Politics," replied my uncle, "military politics, just futile display of pyrotechnics to amuse the populace and give heroically inclined young men a chance to strut in uniforms--but after the election this fall such folly will cease.”
― Milo Hastings, City of Endless Night