What is a powerful line from a book/show/movie you remember?
Civilisation rests on the principle that we treat our criminals better than they treated their victims
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LeopoldBloom · M
At the end of the Sphynx chapter of Moby-Dick.
"O head! Thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!"
The last line of "Respondez" by Walt Whitman.
"Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limitless years of death! (What do you suppose death will do, then?)"
There are many others, but like the above, their power comes from the lines that preceded them.
"O head! Thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!"
The last line of "Respondez" by Walt Whitman.
"Let the limited years of life do nothing for the limitless years of death! (What do you suppose death will do, then?)"
There are many others, but like the above, their power comes from the lines that preceded them.