80 Quotes by M.T. Anderson

No one with feeds thinks about it,” she said. “When you have the feed all your life, you’re brought up to not think about things. Like them never telling you that it’s a republic and not a democracy. It’s something that makes me angry, what people don’t know about these days. Because of the feed, we’re raising a nation of idiots. Ignorant, self-centered idiots.

I came into the world alone.” She picked up her shoe and scratched the crust out of the tread. She said, “I didn’t want to go out of it alone.

Then it was this big thing. She was like, ‘I never want to see you again’, and I was like, ‘Fine. Okay? Fine. Then get some special goggles.

When we read tales of atrocity, we all want to be the ones who stood firm, who would not bend, who shouted the truth in the face of the dictator... It is easy for us all to imagine we are heroes when we are sitting in our kitchens, dreaming of distant suffering.

Those accustomed to failure fear the novelty of success. Those taught the lessons of subordination are oft timid in the school of self-service.

Strangely enough, doctors and nurses noted that activity actually prolonged life, when it should have shortened it. Those who lay down and tried to conserve energy often were the ones who trailed off and died first.

It’s important to see who you’re growing into and who you used to be.

On the artillery shells produced in Leningrad, workers stenciled messages to the Germans: “For the blood of our workers,” “For our children’s anguish,” and “For our murdered friends.

I believe,′ said Marcus Furius, ’that an order of male virgins who never see the light of day would be ideal for the operation of a computing machine such as this.