14 Quotes by Jesper Bugge Kold

Don’t you see? Something’s wrong. People don’t ask questions anymore, and they take whatever’s written in the police report to be the indisputable truth.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

If you ask me, technocracy is the way forward. Let he who is capable lead. It won’t do to put responsibility in the hands of the people; they are too emotional, and one cannot steer a country with emotions.

It was a lamentable sight to look out over all the empty seats in a place that represented the cradle of wisdom.

His experience was that people were divided into six groups, and everyone belonged to one of them, whether they realized it or not. There were the fanatics, the supporters, the opportunists, the fearful, the doubters, and the resisters. The final two categories were thinning in number, unfortunately. More and more of them would soon be categorized among the fearful or the detained resisters. He thought of a seventh group: the dead.

If the citizenry is too intelligent, they’ll just burn their books.

Everyone seemed to just accept what was happening. The eradication of the individual, the reduction of the people to a faceless gray mass shouting “heil” on command.

I’m glad I’m no longer teaching, because nowadays the teachers are told what they must teach the children. All.

He couldn’t help but notice the large birthmark stretching across one cheek, from her ear down to her chin.