"Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings."
- Amit Kalantri
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.Never shall I forget that smoke.Never shall I forget the small faces of the childre..."
- Elie Wiesel
"16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment."
- Israelmore Ayivor
"In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By r..."
- Julio Cortázar
"It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights."
- Tariq Ali
"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
- Lester B. Pearson
"The two came to differ on many, if not most, issues. But the man who would single-handedly defy Hitler in 1940 against all odds bears a striking resemblance to the man who organized the first satyagra..."
- Arthur Herman
"Bernstein was impressed by Sloan's thoughtfulness. Sloan seemed convinced that the President, whom he very much wanted to see re-elected, had known nothing of what happened before June 17; but he was ..."
- Carl Bernstein
"He believed the press was doing its job, but, in the absence of candor from the committee, it had reached unfair conclusions about some people. Sloan himself was a prime example. He was not bitter, ju..."
"At the end of a century that has seenthe evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies,the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent."
- Joseph Sobran