Quotes from Ken Follett

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them. Always remember that.

Peace was all a human being ought to ask for, it seemed to her.

eloquently honour President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.

C'est un bon artisan, laissa tomber sieur Gérald sur le ton qu'aurait pris un maquignon pour affirmer qu'en raison de leur petite taille, les poneys étaient les montures les mieux adaptées aux femmes.

the importance of a free press, but it seemed to her that the lack of critical newspapers made it much easier for other forms of oppression to flourish.

Fiat voluntas tua: hágase tu voluntad».

La característica más asombrosa del liderazgo soviético de los anteriores sesenta y cinco años era la negativa a afrontar los hechos.

They did not suspect her for a moment. It did not occur to them that a woman could be dangerous. How foolish they were. Women could do most of the things men did. Who was left in charge when the men were fighting wars, or going on crusades? There were women carpenters, dyers, tanners, bakers and brewers. Aliena herself was one of the most important merchants in the county.

one of Churchill's jibes about Attlee: "An empty car drew up and Clem got out." The

Maud knew the proprietor of the Mail, Lord Northcliffe. Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

political parties representing rival bourgeois factions create the illusion of choice but unite to repress the working class.

La vida de una mujer era una casa con las puertas cerradas: no podía formarse como aprendiz ni podía estudiar en la universidad; no podía ser sacerdote ni médico, ni tampoco disparar con un arco

There was a monastery on the far side of the town. The monks had a way of measuring the hours of the night: they made big, graduated candles that told the time as they burned down. One hour before dawn they would ring the bell, then get up to chant their service of Matins.

than the light, because their deeds were evil.

America is free because it has disrespectful newspapers and television shows to expose and shame presidents who fuck the Constitution up the ass." He raised his glass. "Here's to the free press. Here's to disrespect. And God bless America.

también —repuso él—. Pero nos habíamos hecho una promesa. —Ya lo sé.

We hanged him in front of Kingsbridge Cathedral. It is the usual place for executions. After all, if you can't kill a man in front of God's face you probably shouldn't kill him at all.

I never trust anyone who proclaims his morality from the pulpit. That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules. I'd rather do business with an everyday sinner who thinks it's probably to his advantage, in the long run, to tell the truth and keep his promises. He's not likely to change his mind about that.

Fascists. They're both evil.

Dimka said angrily: "Why the hell do you risk everything for the sake of an empty protest?" "We live in a brutal tyranny," she said. "We have to do something to keep hope alive." "We

Resulta extraño que a veces Dios se lleve a los hombres buenos y deje a los malos.

Dimka kept his face expressionless. Trofim Lysenko was a scientific charlatan, a clever self-promoter who had won Khrushchev's favor even though his research was worthless. He promised improved yields that never materialized, but he managed to persuade political leaders that his opponents were "anti-progress," an accusation that was as fatal in the USSR as "Communist" was in the USA

haven, a place to rest and get clean and whole

The relation of love is not the same as the relation of worship. One worships a god. Only human beings can be loved. When we worship a woman we cannot love her. Then, when we discover she is not a god, we hate her.