Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does.

I choose my own way to burn.

~ Sophie Scholl of White Rose in Nazi Germany

...under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t find you. But it’s all an illusion, because they die too—those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe.
*Safe?* From what?

...fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don’t like to make waves—or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honour, truth, and principles are only literature. Those who live small, mate small, die small.
It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it...

The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive'. The 'honest' men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won’t take measure of their own strength, for...

..you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.”
Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.”
-German professor on nazi dictatorship Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free 1955