Death in Focus Quotes

“You deliberately don’t ask the questions to which you would rather not know the answers. You call it trust. You know too late that it is cowardice.”
― Anne Perry, Death in Focus

“You do not need to believe evil, only to use its methods. You will get accustomed to them, until eventually they are not your last choice, but your first. For awhile, you can justify it to yourself, and then eventually you will not bother. You have forgotten what you are fighting for; now winning is the only objective! And the more you win, the more you justify it, until the whole idea of right and wrong disappears and only winning matters.”
― Anne Perry, Death in Focus

“I suppose every culture has them: men in bondage to their own inadequacies, who will never be satisfied because the emptiness is inside them.” “Yes,” Lucas replied. “They’re always there, the misfits. It’s the measure of a leader, which men he picks for the next tier of command…With Hitler it’s the men who were failures in their own eyes before and have a chance to take their revenge on society now.” “Bitter…” Churchill responded. Lucas half turned, looking around him, then back at Churchill. “Where does it stop, this tide of…violence? How long do we wait before we start doing something? When it’s only Germany? When it’s only Germany and Belgium, or Austria, or part of Poland? When it gets into France as well? A bit late by the time it gets to the cliffs of Dover.”
― Anne Perry, Death in Focus

“There’s a terrible temptation to look at only what you want to, and carefully avoid seeing anything else.”
― Anne Perry, Death in Focus

“What you see, and allow without a fight, is what you become yourself. What is the moral difference between the man who burns his neighbor to death, and the man who stands by and watches him do it?”
― Anne Perry, Death in Focus

“the oldest trick in the book of a demagogue to blame all your troubles on an identifiable group. Turn people’s attention to something they can hate, and they’ll leave you alone.”
― Anne Perry, Death in Focus

“Fear begets violence and hatred,” he answered. “It’s the easy answer. Blame someone else. Blame the Gypsies, the Jews, the Communists, anyone but ourselves. Get rid of them, and it will all be fine. It’s”
― Anne Perry, Death in Focus