Indignity Quotes

“perquè no són capaços de tenir pensaments desconnectats de la seva existència immediata. En diem dignitat, d'això. En aquells temps, encara podia parlar per ella mateixa. Ara que és morta, és impotent, incapaç de modelar o defensar el seu llegat. I, tanmateix, hi ha una versió d'ella que encara existeix, d'alguna manera, al costat d'aquells comentaris, igual que la fotografia sobre una tomba profanada continua existint al costat del munt d'ossos escampats al fang. ¿La dignitat requereix l'existència continuada d'algú, la capacitat activa de defensar-la, de protegir-la de l'ofensa, d'erigir-se en el seu nom? ¿És una relació que depèn del reconeixement extern, del compliment dels nostres compromisos, una manera de ser al món, tant individualment com amb els altres? ¿O és, potser, una qualitat inherent, que posseïm pel simple fet de ser qui som, una voluntat disciplinada pel lliure albir, i per això mateix també susceptible d'error? I si la preservació de la dignitat exigeix estar viu, ¿vol dir, això, que la dignitat no és tan immaterial com solem creure, que una persona morta ja no pot tenir dignitat, que és una mena de propietat que es converteix en pols, com els cabells, la pell o les ungles d'algú?”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“If there is no honourable end in sight, isn’t ending it simply the rational thing to do? But then again, why should one’s willingness to fight depend on how things are expected to turn out? What would be the difference between doing the right thing, and learning to adapt?”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“It was an early morning in July 1949”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“advised. ‘I suspect Mr Hoxha is the best of a very bad lot.”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“Evil was always the result of error”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“Being a communist”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“sometimes to remember is just to acknowledge that rare moment in which we find a reason for our emotions”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“Countries rise and fall”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“Perhaps we only want to find the truths we already know in some form,”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“certainty.”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“I wonder if God exists,’ Selma whispered. ‘And who do we really belong to – God or ourselves?”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“You could tell it was important by the amount of terror it had provoked: terror usually went hand in hand with a strong desire to save humanity,”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“The human being”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“what-ifs.”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined

“The past is never past; it's like a distant relative who continues to age far away, as we are busy taking care of the present. It changes, it becomes bitter, it starts to resent us. Memory, she would say with Saint Augustine, is the stomach of the mind. It stores things without consuming them.”
― Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined