“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”

“Everything seemed so clear to him now that he could not stop wondering how it was that everybody did not see it, and that he himself had for such a long while not seen what was so clearly evident. ...”

“There are many faiths, but the spirit is one in me, and in you, and in him. So that if everyone believes himself, all will be united; everyone be himself and all will be as one.”

“Imagine a problem in psychology: to find a way of getting people in our day and age - Christians, humanitarians, nice, kind people - to commit the most heinous crimes without feeling any guilt. The...”

“The position occupied by Toporff, involving as it did an incongruity of purpose, could only be held by a dull man devoid of moral sensibility. Toporff possessed both these negative qualities. The i...”

“It is usually imagined that a thief, a murderer, a spy, a prostitute, acknowledging his profession as evil, is ashamed of it. But the contrary is true. People whom fate and their sin-mistakes have ...”

“They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.”

“And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cun...”

“And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cun...”