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I must honor those who fight of their own free willl, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.

— Christopher Isherwood Christopher and His Kind (1976)

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He might, in certain situations, accept them as allies but he could never regard them as comrades.

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it.

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

Once I have refused to press that button because of Heinz, I can never press it.

Christopher and His Kind (1976)

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.

Exhumations (1966)

'We don't think enough [about the lot] of the other fellow, and that's a fact.'

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