Goodbye Paris Quotes

“glanced out the ancient window at the afternoon sunlight cascading down the broad new leaves of a chestnut tree in the garden. It shimmered with life and meaning – a vision of something forever beyond us – innocent and true, the miracle of sunlight on the green magic of leaves, in this world of mysterious beauty we do not love or understand”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris

“Forty years of socialism has filled the courts with judges who believe that criminal acts are due to social causes, and that punishment only makes it worse.”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris

“Back in the late seventies and early eighties,” Thierry said, “when the Socialists realized they were out of step with the French people and would soon be out of office, they opened the gates and brought in all the North Africans they could, as the Arabs in gratitude would vote almost exclusively Socialist. In a national campaign with several candidates, two percent of the votes can be a huge margin, and having millions of Islamic voters can win the presidency though you barely get thirty percent of the total. It’s the only thing that’s kept the Socialists in power”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris

“The second line of cops was of course CRS, the national riot police, and if you thought the regular police were tough and nasty you don’t want to meet these folks. I swear they must have all been from Corsica or Alsace – a mix of brute strength and cagy wisdom that wasn’t going to let any asshole through without a 21-carat ID and a bulletproof reason to be there. One of them laughed when he saw my DGSE card. “What, you want to give out parking tickets?”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil ... To not speak is to speak. To not act is to act. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris

“the millions of semi-Muslims in France – they identify with the culture but do not often practice the religion. But the moment they feel this culture is threatened, of course they defend it. Lapsed Catholics are the same. We all are. The trouble is their culture, beyond a certain density, is destructive of ours. And”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris

“The first thing to understand about Islam is that it divides the world into the House of Islam and the House of War. And everything not Muslim is in the House of War, and needs to be taken over and Islamic law enforced.”
― Mike Bond, Goodbye Paris