Author of quotes: Marc Levy. Page 4

Men need praise. If they are not praised by others, they praise themselves.

I was more cunning! Instead of trying to change the system, I decided to benefit from it. Since it wasn't efiable to destroy it, I challenged it and won.

They used tear gas, the first time gas had been used against students. You have no idea how this crap works: a person suffocates, turns him inside out, it seems that your eyes have been burned out. Clespes the chest, cramps all over the body. Those who were in the forefront, then had severe complications.

Striving for a beautiful ideal, we have done terrible stupid things. When you are convinced that you are fighting for a good cause, rights and justice, nothing will stop you. That's where you can do terrible things. We were not limited to civil disobedience. One evil entailed another. Violence is poison: once it appears in your circulatory system, it turns into a brain-eating drug.

Our personal lives, movements, views, tastes, our choices, everything we buy, watch on TV, movie spots, books we read, our whole life is recorded and cataloged in great detail.

It was no longer just a kind person: when he sang, other lives, besides his own, lit up in his eyes.

Friendship is like love, the difference is the absence of sex.

A woman is able, without the slightest remorse, to kill the one who kidnapped her child.

It is strange that newspapers are always more interested in executioners than heroes. Looks like the scent of shit sells better than the scent of roses.

- There is no half-truth?
- That's the thing. There is a truth that cannot be thrown out immediately.

I have a drawback: I don't believe in good news.

Over the course of my long career, I realized that if we exclude the antics of unbalanced people, then there are only two types of murder: for the purpose of profit or under the influence of passion.

The history of nations touches readers only when it is associated with people of flesh and blood, with whom one can identify. Without this, even the most detailed reports, even the most nightmarish horrors remain only chains of events and dates.

Over and over again, the same question arises: how does the authorities manage to turn normal people into shoulder masters, how can a father of a family return home, kiss his wife and children after tormenting and killing other women and children all day?