Quote of the Day – Cassiodorus
Man can live without Gold, but not without salt. – Attributed to 5th century AD Roman senator Cassiodorus (cited in Men of Salt by Michael Benanav P.xiv, a book we are reading)
Quote of the Day – Henry David Thoreau
We all (particularly, those of us in the U.S.) live in an age when we constantly hanker and hunger for more and bigger and fancier things all the time. Never mind that a third of the world has no access to safe drinking water, a roof over the head or relief from the scourge of […]
Quote of the Day – Pakistani Soldiers
Hus ke liye hai Pakistan, ladh ke lenge Hindustan (We achieved Pakistan laughing; we will take India fighting) – Pakistani Soldiers, sometime in the early 1960s around the time of the 1965 Indo-Pak war (cited in Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi P.401) Fast forward 44 years Pakistan is on the verge of collapse as a failed […]
Quote of the Day – David Kepesh (Krishna Banji a.k.a. Ben Kingsley)
When you make love to a woman you get revenge for all the things that defeated you in life.- David Kepesh in Elegy
Quote of the Day – Edward Gibbon
Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol 1, Ch.1 P.9
Quote of the Day – Hillary Clinton
Mexico is burning. Ever since Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared a war on the drug-lords, the violence has exploded. Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade…Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians. – U.S. […]