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Fatherland QUOTES

Fatherland QUOTES

1 " Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor. "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

2 " A police state is a country run by criminals "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

3 " What do you do,’ he said, ‘if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work for? What do you do when everyone tells you not to worry, you can’t do anything about it, it was a long time ago?’ She was looking at him in a different way. ‘I suppose you go crazy.’ ‘Or worse. Sane. "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

4 " Anyone found not enjoying themselves will be shot. "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

5 " You cant build on a mass grave. Human beings are better than that - we have to be better than that - I do believe, don't you?" Charlie McGuire, Fatherland "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

6 " March had a routine for reading the paper. He started at the back, with the truth. If Leipzig was said to have beaten Cologne four-nil at football, the chances were it was true: even the Party had yet to devise a means of rewriting the sports results. The sports news was a different matter. COUNTDOWN "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

7 " The avenue was designed by Reichsminister Albert Speer and completed in 1957. It is one hundred and twenty-three meters wide and five-point-six kilometers in length. It is both wider, and two and a half times longer, than the Chaps Elysees in Paris.

Higher, longer, bigger, wider, more expensive...even in victory, thought March, Germany has a parvenu's inferiority complex. Nothing stands on its own. Everything has to be compared with what the foreigners have.... "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

8 " A permanent state of war on the Eastern front will help to form a sound race of men,’ the Führer had once said, ‘and will prevent us relapsing into the softness of a Europe thrown back upon itself.’ But "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

9 " Violence crackled around him in the dry air, like static electricity "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

10 " It was like having a child forever at your heels - a persistent, intelligent, embarrassing, deceitful, dangerous child "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

11 " So I have a choice: either I am an investigator in that uniform, and try to do a little good; or I am something else without that uniform, and do no good at all. "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

12 " How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how easy to do it! You went along from day to day, down paths other people had prepared for you, never raising your head - enfolded in their logic, from swaddling clothes to shroud. It was a kind of fear. Well, goodbye to that. And good to leave it behind - whatever happened now. - 214 "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

13 " It was not quite seven and Berlin was alive with possibilities the day had yet to dull. "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

14 " Against the alchemy of two naked bodies in a bed in the darkness, and against all the complex longings and attachments and commitments such intimacy might arouse, he had nothing with which to fight. "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland

15 " He remembered a line of graffiti scrawled by White Rose on a wall near Werderscher Markt: ‘A police state is a country run by criminals’. "

― Robert Harris , Fatherland