“I wear the same casual outfit everywhere, pair of jeans with a shirt or tshirt - people wear fancy clothes either to look and feel good, or impress others, I have no need for either, so I walk like beggar.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“This is what your thoughts look like--what you look like, when it comes down to it. Because what are we, if not the sum total of our thoughts and memories?”
Source: In Charm's Way
“The concept and subsequent development of these JEN2 successors to the old machines, was a story in its own right. It was also one marred with frustration, hidden agendas and ultimately punctuated with a sad human tragedy.”
Source: The Girl with the Porcelain Lips
“History will remember this war on Palestinian civilians and their displacement as the moment the world woke up to the Zionist plans of occupation and expansion.”
“Hammer the Poles until they despair of living [...] I have all the sympathy in the world for their situation, but if we want to exist we have no choice but to wipe them out: wolves are only what God made them, but we shoot them all the same when we can get at them.”
Source: Bismarck's Speeches and Letters
“There was a need for war, as if people had suffered a lack of events for a long time, coveting the ones they could only experience as television viewers. There was a desire to reconnect with age-old tragedy.”
Source: The Years
“Me too thy nobleness has taught
To master my despair;
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy friendship fair.”
“There may, of course, be no alternative to planning, especially when the urgency of a single goal, such as winning a war, seems to require the subordination of every other goal. The immanent logic of such an exercise, however, implies a degree of certainty about the future, about means-ends calculations, and about the meaning of human welfare that is truly heroic. That such plans have often had to be adjusted or abandoned is an indication of just how heroic are the assumptions behind them.”
Source: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
“What indescribable disasters this horrid war creates! Oh, if the rulers that started this just experienced a thousandth part of it themselves, they would certainly forever banish this scourge of humanity from the earth.”
Source: Aanteekeningen Gehouden Gedurende Mijnen Marsch Naar: Gevangenschap In, En Terugreize Uit Rusland In De Jaren 1812,1813 En 1814
“The world had gone mad. In war nothing was wrong but losing. No blacks and whites, only areas of gray. Whatever it took, whatever worked.”