“Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.” ShouldJobsStepsTakenProduceRedTapeTornEvery StepUnemployedRed Tape Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.” MenWayKindBigsSeemsAgeTakenAcceptanceCatOld AgeAll KindsIronyIronicBetrayTornSentimentalityResignedBurroughs Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings
“The whole thing was set up very cleverly. The people who were torn from their normal lives and put on the trains may have heard that terrible things were happening in Auschwitz, but even up to the end, they kept on thinking: Perhaps it isn't so bad after all. And then they arrived and the SS told them: "The old people and the sick can take the truck. Anyone who is still young can walk." It took us a while to realize that the ones who were being driven were really being taken to the gas chambers.” PeopleThinkingMayStillsEndsWholeYoungRealizingWalksTakenHeardTerribleNormalHappeningsSickTrainDrivenGasTornOld PeopleTruckChamberTerrible ThingsNormal LifeAuschwitzVery CleverGas Chambers Author:Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
“Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it means to be torn between cultures, what it means to be taken over by other cultures.” MeanCultureIssuesTakenConflictTornOther Cultures Author:Forest Whitaker
“It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive” IfsHeartChristianLyingNumbersCompanyLordHellTakenFourAliveBloodSingingSightTwentiesNakedSheepAlmightyTornSolemnInsultingCaptivesRoaringHounds Book:Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Source: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson