The Secret Speech Quotes

“The system required the consent of everyone, even if they consented by doing nothing.”
― Tom Rob Smith, The Secret Speech

“—I need to meet you.”
― Tom Rob Smith, The Secret Speech

“People don’t always get… what they deserve…”
― Tom Rob Smith, The Secret Speech

“No child could remain in the sanctuary unless they opened themselves to God. If they resisted, refused to believe, they were expelled. There was no shortage of street children to choose from.”
― Tom Rob Smith, The Secret Speech

“The system required the consent of everyone, even if they consented by doing nothing. Nothing was enough. They’d depended upon a lack of resistance”
― Tom Rob Smith, The Secret Speech

“Producing nothing, serving no quantifiable function, the church was an archaic structure, erected for archaic reasons by a society that no longer existed.”
― Tom Rob Smith, The Secret Speech

“I had no choice" with those words thousands died, not with bullets but with perverse logic and careful reasoning.”
― Tom Rob Smith, The Secret Speech