#u

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#destruction #man #only #prevent #provoke

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#camps #concentration #die #discovered #everyone

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#days #drunk #ford #got #great

Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#difficult #fond #get #girl #her

You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance. ↗

— Michelle Wie

#give #lots #make #opponent #you

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#barrels #changing #claim #depreciation #existing

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#imposes #new #new possibilities #only #possibilities

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#despair #duty #i #i remember #reject

Towards the end of the Lord Chamberlain's era, when his hold was being loosened, private prosecutions began to happen. A member of staff at the Royal Court ordered to stop the play, and the police were brought in. ↗

— Timothy West

#being #brought #chamberlain #court #end

A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that I be forgiven for anything I may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness.  Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which I may be eligible after the destruction of my body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#agnosticism #bureaucracy #funny #humor #mythology