Mmkay, this is a really powerful-but really long- quote and I really hope wewe take just a few dakika out of whatever you're doing and read it.
"I was telling wewe about evil, now that I know what it is. It's what makes a man get drunk and press a red hot poker on his child's back. It's what makes men have to queue for hours at the dock gates for a chance of a job when there are only a dozen jobs for a hundred men, so they fight each other in order to get them, and the foreman laugh and egg them on. It's what takes an old couple who've got nothing left but each other and splits them up to go in the workhouse so they each die alone. It's ... what takes rent out of tenements and slums and refuses the responsibility of mending the drains, so that children have to wade knee-deep through filth to get into their houses....Don't interrupt. Don't open your mouth. Listen to me and learn.
Evil....it's what makes a family starve--the family I heard about the other day, five of them, father and mother and three children all dead, with nothing in their little room, nothing, because they'd pawned every spoon and every blanket and every chair, and there was no work, and they starved to death. And I've never gone without a meal in my whole life. My city. The same city wewe live in--this happens. That's evil. And wewe know what's at the moyo of it all? Eh? The gnawing poison cancer destroying and eating and laying waste at the moyo of it all? It's not only you, wewe poor pitiful man; it's me, too. Me and ten thousand others. Because we have shares in the companies that own those buildings and doesn't repair the drains, and we make money out of the docks that prosper kwa denying men work, and because we've never looked. All this time, all the money we've made kwa buying and selling and buying again--we never knew what it meant. Didn't know what a pound meant. Didn't know what a shilling meant.
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No, I never intended this. wewe didn't deserve it. But I did it. Just as I made that family starve and put those men out of work and I drove that man mad with misery and despair so that he tortured his child with a red-hot poker. I did it, without knowing. So I'm guilty, me and all the other share-holders and speculators and capitalists. wewe know where evil is? It's not just in you, it's in....pretending not to know things once you've seen them. Seeing something bad and shutting your eyes, turning away. All right, I didn't know. But there's no excuse now that I do." Sally Lockhart (Philup Pullman) pg. 349-351, The Tiger in the Well.
I hope wewe took the time to read this. Because eve though some of it might not make sense out of context (and 19th century England) it's all true.
Do wewe have any powerful quotes? Feel free to post them in the comments!
"I was telling wewe about evil, now that I know what it is. It's what makes a man get drunk and press a red hot poker on his child's back. It's what makes men have to queue for hours at the dock gates for a chance of a job when there are only a dozen jobs for a hundred men, so they fight each other in order to get them, and the foreman laugh and egg them on. It's what takes an old couple who've got nothing left but each other and splits them up to go in the workhouse so they each die alone. It's ... what takes rent out of tenements and slums and refuses the responsibility of mending the drains, so that children have to wade knee-deep through filth to get into their houses....Don't interrupt. Don't open your mouth. Listen to me and learn.
Evil....it's what makes a family starve--the family I heard about the other day, five of them, father and mother and three children all dead, with nothing in their little room, nothing, because they'd pawned every spoon and every blanket and every chair, and there was no work, and they starved to death. And I've never gone without a meal in my whole life. My city. The same city wewe live in--this happens. That's evil. And wewe know what's at the moyo of it all? Eh? The gnawing poison cancer destroying and eating and laying waste at the moyo of it all? It's not only you, wewe poor pitiful man; it's me, too. Me and ten thousand others. Because we have shares in the companies that own those buildings and doesn't repair the drains, and we make money out of the docks that prosper kwa denying men work, and because we've never looked. All this time, all the money we've made kwa buying and selling and buying again--we never knew what it meant. Didn't know what a pound meant. Didn't know what a shilling meant.
...
No, I never intended this. wewe didn't deserve it. But I did it. Just as I made that family starve and put those men out of work and I drove that man mad with misery and despair so that he tortured his child with a red-hot poker. I did it, without knowing. So I'm guilty, me and all the other share-holders and speculators and capitalists. wewe know where evil is? It's not just in you, it's in....pretending not to know things once you've seen them. Seeing something bad and shutting your eyes, turning away. All right, I didn't know. But there's no excuse now that I do." Sally Lockhart (Philup Pullman) pg. 349-351, The Tiger in the Well.
I hope wewe took the time to read this. Because eve though some of it might not make sense out of context (and 19th century England) it's all true.
Do wewe have any powerful quotes? Feel free to post them in the comments!
J.K. Rowlings world of harry potter is fantstic!!! She took everything we know about ndoto uandishi and bended it into a oposite realitiy called harry potter. We all know stories of werwolves, but professer lupin, a teacher at Hogwarts, is a freindly one with a background of mystery. J.K. Rowling made it clear that he is a character to like. All of her characters are eteremly likeable, even the vilanous lucsious malfoy. With seven vitabu in all for the harry potter series, each one better than the last, we all wish she would continue the story of frendship, hardship, and ndoto that is harry potter. kusoma the series is a must. No mater how many times wewe have read the series, ejoyment comes with each encounter. READ HARRY POTTER!!!
JETT
kwa KRISTEN BIERS
My name's Lisa.I'm 17.My mom died two years zamani from cancer and my dad's somewhere in the world of wonders.
I ran away from nyumbani three months after my mom pasted.My dad changed after his wife died.He got zaidi violent and wasn't as friendly.I grew tired of his crap.So my simple solution was to run away.Be free.
I found a house in the woods of Colorado and decided to call it mine.It was all boarded up.But i fixed it up with the money I took before I left.
Of course the money wouldn't last forever so i got a job at the closest SPCA.A job that i wouldn't have to go to college to have.Walking the dogs.I figured that would pay enough,at least for now.
Then my adventure started.An adventure so big to last ones life.The one who changed my view of life.
Jett.
kwa KRISTEN BIERS
My name's Lisa.I'm 17.My mom died two years zamani from cancer and my dad's somewhere in the world of wonders.
I ran away from nyumbani three months after my mom pasted.My dad changed after his wife died.He got zaidi violent and wasn't as friendly.I grew tired of his crap.So my simple solution was to run away.Be free.
I found a house in the woods of Colorado and decided to call it mine.It was all boarded up.But i fixed it up with the money I took before I left.
Of course the money wouldn't last forever so i got a job at the closest SPCA.A job that i wouldn't have to go to college to have.Walking the dogs.I figured that would pay enough,at least for now.
Then my adventure started.An adventure so big to last ones life.The one who changed my view of life.
Jett.