Deb Omnivorous Reader

“Anyone who thinks politics equals power has no understanding of either politics or power. The games of politics are sponsored by the powerful, and are designed to deliver a single end - to secure their power.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Day Guard

“It is strange how easy it is to remember pain.”
― Eric Lomax, The Railway Man

“Ezekiel looked into amber and saw God, but the Teutonic Knights saw something less noble: gold.”
― Victoria Finlay

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species