One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true
John FowlesThe craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?
John FowlesThat was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.
John FowlesPeople knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or a switch away. Strangers were strange, and sometimes with an exciting, beautiful strangeness. It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more.
John Fowles