A Field of Broken Stones Quotes

“The machine could understand a man who would kill, but it couldn't understand one who wouldn't. Each part of the machine-the U.S. Attorney, the judge-were nice enough in themselves. They were courteous and likable. But the human parts put together made a big vicious mechanical machine that seemed to possess, instead of feeling, only a brute force.”
― Lowell Naeve, A Field of Broken Stones: The Prison Memoirs of a World War Two Conscientious Objector

“The people in the world were destroying all that was good in it. They were destroying the best in it. Themselves.”
― Lowell Naeve, A Field of Broken Stones: The Prison Memoirs of a World War Two Conscientious Objector