Warburg in Rome Quotes

“...she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during WWII in Italy]”
― James Carroll, Warburg in Rome

“...the nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.”
― James Carroll, Warburg in Rome

“Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism... [A Catholic American soldier's reaction to seeing St. Peter's Basilica during WWII.]”
― James Carroll, Warburg in Rome