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Dominion QUOTES

Dominion QUOTES

1 " The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die. "

― C.J. Sansom , Dominion

2 " Whenever a party tells you national identity matters more than anything else in politics, that nationalism can sort out all the other problems, then watch out, because you’re on a road that can end with fascism. "

― C.J. Sansom , Dominion

3 " We used to think British people could never become Fascists, or Fascist collaborators. But they can. I suppose anybody can, given the right set of circumstances. "

― C.J. Sansom , Dominion

4 " But you were wrong; given the right circumstances fascism can infest any country, feeding off the hatreds and nationalisms that already exist. Nobody is safe.’ ‘I know. "

― C.J. Sansom , Dominion

5 " that the Great War had made mass slaughter ordinary, that was why Stalin and Hitler could commit murder on a scale inconceivable before 1914. It was why these old men could talk like Soviet Commissars or SS men. "

― C.J. Sansom , Dominion

6 " For me they weren’t just names. I look over the desks and think, this boy sat here, that one there. I pray to the Good Lord another war never comes. "

― C.J. Sansom , Dominion

7 " I suppose we were drawn to each other because neither of us quite fitted in. "

― C.J. Sansom , Dominion