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101 " I remember seeing a Nazi poster,” she went on. It was this memory that had triggered her dreadful thought. “There was a picture of a male nurse and a mentally handicapped man. The text said something like: ‘Sixty thousand reichsmarks is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the people’s community during his lifetime. Comrade, that is your money too!’ It was an advertisement for a magazine, I think. "
― Ken Follett , Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
102 " 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong? "
103 " «Habéis estado demasiado tiempo aquí sentado para el bien que habéis hecho. Marchad, os digo, y libradnos de vos. ¡En el nombre de Dios, marchad!». "
104 " One is a comfortable partnership, where two people share the same hopes and fears, raise children as a team, and give each other comfort and help "
105 " they were bonded together by generosity in good times and solidarity in bad. This was what he would be fighting for, these people, this town. And if he had to give his life for them, it would be well spent. "
106 " if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul? "
107 " They had paid her the compliment of coming to her door without an invitation, knowing they would be welcomed. They belonged to her, and she to them. They were, she realized, her family. "
108 " She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly. Now she knew that was all wrong. Cleverness had nothing to do with it, and she had no choice. Love was an earthquake. "
109 " A secret shared is a secret no more. "
110 " The scientists there included Leo Szilard, the man who first conceived of the nuclear chain reaction. Szilard was a Hungarian Jew who had studied at the University of Berlin—until the fatal year of 1933. The research team in Chicago was led by Enrico Fermi, the Italian physicist. Fermi, whose wife was Jewish, had left Italy when Mussolini published his Manifesto of Race. Greg wondered whether the Fascists realized that their racism had brought such a windfall of brilliant scientists to their enemies. "
111 " Welsh chapelgoers automatically sang in four-part harmony, and when they were in the mood they could raise the roof. As he joined in, Lloyd felt this was the beating heart of Britain, here in this whitewashed chapel. "
112 " Never use your own money when you can spend someone else’s. "
113 " German women have to make hard choices. We’re paying for the easy choices German men made fifteen years ago. Men such as my father, who thought Hitler would be good for business, and Heinrich’s father, who voted for the Enabling Act. The sins of the fathers are visited on the daughters. "
114 " Don’t you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul? "
115 " Carla no creía en Dios —ninguna entidad sagrada digna de tal nombre habría permitido que llegaran a existir los campos de exterminio nazis—, "
116 " El general rebelde, Franco, había conseguido el respaldo de la Iglesia católica. "
117 " Cuando llegaron, se llevaron una gran sorpresa. El lugar estaba rodeado de camisas pardas. Los diputados y sus ayudantes se agolpaban en torno a las puertas, intentando entrar. —¿Es así como piensa Hitler salirse con la suya? ¿Impidiéndonos entrar en el Reichstag? —exclamó Walter hecho una furia. Lloyd vio que los camisas pardas bloqueaban el paso. Dejaban entrar sin preguntar nada a todos aquellos que llevaban el uniforme nazi, pero los demás debían mostrar sus credenciales "
118 " El primer asunto que debían tratar cuando se iniciara la sesión esa tarde era la Ley de Habilitación, que permitiría que el gabinete de Hitler pudiera aprobar leyes sin el permiso del Reichstag. "
119 " What kind of message did that "
120 " quick to comfort and advise, slow to command or punish. "