“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented…There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest…Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”
Elie Wiesel (and never retreat into hate, so that we become what we hate)
“He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider, but it was a very corrupting business.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
“I cannot believe it, they are going to do it all over again. All the fraudulent securities, the wanton bubbles in paper, the watered stocks, the wildly overvalued IPOs, the lies and double dealing, the financial deception, the mispriced risks, the abuse of language, the widespread corruption of public policy, and then the inevitable, sickening crunch. Never have so many sacrificed so much, for such an underserving, careless few.”
Jesse
