A Man Without Breath Quotes

“it is always the women who rebuild the civilizations that the men have done their best to destroy”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“It was an interesting dilemma and pointed up a real point of difference between Nazism and Communism as forms of government: there was no room for the individual in Soviet Russia; conversely not everything was state-managed in Germany. The Nazis never shot anyone for being stupid, inefficient or just plain unlucky. Generally speaking the Nazis looked for a reason to shoot you, the commies were quite happy to shoot you without any reason at all - but when you're going to be shot, what's the difference?”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions - despite the objections of intellectuals. The courage to speak, perhaps, even when he believes that what he is suggesting sounds like madness.”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“the man who succeeds is the man who is able to reduce problems to their simplest terms and who has the courage of his convictions”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“This is the country for cruel experiments—it’s where idealists are sent to die, my friend. Killing people who believe in things is our national sport.” With”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“I’m sure I don’t have to tell a German what a “special operation” amounts to. You Germans use this euphemism too, don’t you? When you want to kill thousands of people and pretend that it’s something sanitary.”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“alacrity. When the head was completely severed he lifted”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“Either way God was going to have to choose sides and choose soon: the godless communists or the blaspheming Germans. Who would be God with a choice like that?”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“corridor that smelt strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat and men’s piss.”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“Is that what we are? Fools?” “Certainly. But at least we know we’re fools. And in today’s Germany, that counts as a kind of wisdom.” •”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“In my experience, Corporal, the best police work looks like nothing at all and is always soon forgotten.” I”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath

“that smelled strongly of misery, which, as anyone will tell you, is a subtle mixture of hope, despair, rancid cooking fat, and men’s piss.”
― Philip Kerr, A Man Without Breath