“for politics is in its essence as Adams had said the 'systematic organiztion of hatred': either you were organized or you were not”

“Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.”

“Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. ”

“Somewhere along the way." Adam said, "I stopped cooking for anyone other than you. When you were gone, it was like all the flavor had drained out of the world. Without you, nothing tastes as sweet.”

“When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.”

“It was strange to see the keenness with which men had tried to order, constrain, and systematize human passions, jealousy, rage, violent death, accusations. That was the justice system (...): the absurd pretension that human nature could be dominated by the power of the law. Reducing it all to a summary of a few pages, organizing the facts, judging it, archiving it, and forgetting it. That simple. And yet in the silence of that place you could hear the murmur of the written words, of the key players, the screams of the victims, the hatred never forgotten by either party, the pain that never went away.”