Pratchett, Terry -- Discworld No. 8, Guards, Guards (1989)

Dave — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:07:04 +0000

Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard …
But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought.

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Discworld No. 8, Guards, Guards (1989)

Camus, Albert -- Speech, Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg (1948)

Dave — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:45:00 +0000

What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear, and that they should voice their condemnation in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man. […] Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don’t help us, who else in the world can help us do this?

Albert Camus (1913–1960) Algerian-French novelist, essayist, playwright
Speech, Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg (1948)

Speaking on the Holocaust. In Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death [tr. O'Brien (1961)]

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Pratchett, Terry -- Discworld No. 8, Guards, Guards (1989)

Camus, Albert -- Speech, Dominican Monastery of Latour-Maubourg (1948)