The Story of Rats Quotes

“But we, as human beings, can foresee dangers and, as a result, avoid them. To fail to use this ability is to reduce us to a mindless species, at the mercy of fate and chance.”
― S Anthony Barnett, The Story of Rats: Their impact on us, and our impact on them

“Lest things worthy of remembrance should perish with time, and fall away from the memory of those who come after us, I, seeing these many evils, and the whole world lying, as it were, in the wicked one—myself awaiting death among the dead—inter mortuos mortem expectans—as I have truly heard and examined, so I have reduced these things to writing; and lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work fail together with the workman, I leave parchment for continuing the work, if haply any man survive, and any of the race of Adam escape this pestilence and continue the work which I have begun.”
― S Anthony Barnett, The Story of Rats: Their impact on us, and our impact on them