No triumph of peace is quite as great as the supreme triumph of war. – Theodore Roosevelt cited in The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal (edited by Jay Parini) p.368 By the way, there’s a nice interview with Gore Vidal in The Atlantic.
The real obscenities on this planet have very little to do with sex. – Playboy founder Hugh Hefner New York Times P.A12, Oct 24, 2009
It is the Land of Contradictions, the Land of Subtlety and Superstition, the Land of Wealth and Poverty, the Land of Splendor and Desolation, the Land of Plague and Famine, the Land of the Thug and the Poisoner, and of the Meek and the Patient, the Land of the Suttee, the Land of the Unreinstatable […]
Today, tomorrow, next week, the week after, privileged Wall Street insiders who are considering breaking the law will have to ask themselves one important question: Is law enforcement listening? – Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York on October 16, 2009 after filing insider trading complaints against several individuals including three […]
Wherever there are ten Hindus together there is India with her sects and schisms, her racial, lingual, religious, political antagonisms. In the person of Gandhi they are experiencing for a brief moment the miracle of unity, but when he goes there will be a crash, an utter relapse into that strife and chaos so characteristic […]
God is not dead. He was never alive in the first place. – Richard Dawkins, cited in The New York Times Book Review, October 11, 2009 p.18