Ken Follett Quotes

To make a soufflé, you have to break eggs—to make socialism, you have to break heads!

This is how warlike men assuage their consciences—by talk of glory.

What do you think those rebels are? They’re bandits, preying on the law-abiding peasants.

We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure.

There’s nothing wrong with white people. They just ain’t black.

The people who aren’t worried are the ones who will flunk.

The history books do not remember the men who almost achieved greatness.

The greater their ignorance, the stronger their opinions.

The enemy had never been the Germans, just as the enemy now was not the French people: it was the capitalists, the owners of property, the rich and privileged, the ruling class who would use any means, no matter how vicious, to protect their position.

Socialism doesn’t mean everyone can do what they want!

Religious conviction may thwart a timid desire but nothing can stand against genuine lust.

Nobody takes care of your money as well as you do.