The Distant Echo Quotes

“than going”
― Val McDermid, The Distant Echo

“But Germany too had been a civilized country. No one could predict what might happen in any country when the numbers of the dispossessed reached a critical mass. Anyone who promised salvation would find a following.”
― Val McDermid, The Distant Echo

“OK, Weird and Mondo weren’t about to go out and beat up gay men for want of something better to do of an evening. But not everyone in Berlin had been part of Kristallnacht. And look where that had led. By sharing the same position of intolerance, you gave tacit support to the extremists. In order for evil to triumph, Alex remembered, it is necessary only that good men do nothing.”
― Val McDermid, The Distant Echo

“This was a civilized country. The fascists could never gain a hold here. That was the received wisdom, anyway. But Germany too had been a civilized country. No one could predict what might happen in any country when the numbers of the dispossessed reached a critical mass. Anyone who promised salvation would find a following.”
― Val McDermid, The Distant Echo

“thought”
― Val McDermid, The Distant Echo

“prosaic,’ Ziggy said. ‘I don’t suppose the murder”
― Val McDermid, The Distant Echo

“By sharing the same position of intolerance, you gave tacit support to the extremists. In order for evil to triumph, Alex remembered, it is necessary only that good men do nothing.”
― Val McDermid, The Distant Echo