Quotes from Sinner

“Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner

“Just because the truth disturbs someone doesn't make speaking that truth hate speech.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner

“How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner

“When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner

“Nothing was worse than reading too late and falling asleep two or three pages into a novel.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner

“Make sure your soul is attached at all times - this town will steal it in a second, given the chance.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner

“You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Sinner

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“Instigated by princes equally ambitious and less sagacious and more unscrupulous than he was, the people of India were persuaded that they might successfully rise against their English rulers, who had brought them out of a state of anarchy and constant warfare and misery, and had established peace and prosperity in their country. Their ignorance and gross superstition made them the facile tools of their designing chiefs.”
― Jules Verne, quote from The Mysterious Island

“To hear the phrase “our only hope” always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left, and that is never pleasant to think about, however true it might be.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Ersatz Elevator

“No," Foyle roared. "Let them hear this. Let them hear everything."

"You're insane, man. You've handed a loaded gun to children."

"Stop treating them like children and they'll stop behaving like children. Who the hell are you to play monitor?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Stop treating them like children. Explain the loaded gun to them. Bring it all out into the open." Foyle laughed savagely. "I've ended the last star-chamber conference in the world. I've blown that last secret wide open. No more secrets from now on.... No more telling the children what's best for them to know.... Let 'em all grow up. It's about time."

"Christ, he is insane."

"Am I? I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying. The common man's been whipped and led long enough by driven men like us.... Compulsive men... Tiger men who can't help lashing the world before them. We're all tigers, the three of us, but who the hell are we to make decisions for the world just because we're compulsive? Let the world make its own choice between life and death. Why should we be saddled with the responsibility?"

"We're not saddled," Y'ang-Yeovil said quietly. "We're driven. We're forced to seize responsibility that the average man shirks."

"Then let him stop shirking it. Let him stop tossing his duty and guilt onto the shoulders of the first freak who comes along grabbing at it. Are we to be scapegoats for the world forever?"

"Damn you!" Dagenham raged. "Don't you realize that you can't trust people? They don't know enough for their own good."

"Then let them learn or die. We're all in this together. Let's live together or die together."

"D'you want to die in their ignorance? You've got to figure out how to get those slugs back without blowing everything wide open."

"No. I believe in them. I was one of them before I turned tiger. They can all turn uncommon if they're kicked awake like I was.”
― Alfred Bester, quote from The Stars My Destination

“I’ll tell you, but you’ll never understand. You’re on the wrong side of the dark glass. Only the dead know how terrible it is to be alive.”
― Anne Rice, quote from The Tale of the Body Thief

“I would rather be lost with you than alone without you.”
― Amy Harmon, quote from Making Faces

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