Quotations

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” Egyptian-Canadian novelist Omar El Akkad in a tweet about Gaza sent on October 25, 2023 

"The IDF is exterminating the Nazi Muslims in Gaza...we must up the tempo. If it were up to me, I would bring 4 D9’s [bulldozers], place them behind the mounds of dirt and give an order to bury all those hundreds of Nazis ants alive. They are not human beings and not even human animals, They are subhuman and that is how they should be treated." Arieh King Jerusalem. Deputy mayor in charge of East Jerusalem (i.e. the old city) in December 2023

“Part of what we’re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts and separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts. That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require some government regulatory constraints…” Barak Obama three days ago

"If I was a butterfly, live for a day,
I'd be free just blowing away."
Richard Thompson

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier." Rudyard Kipling

“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sunsets sterner, and Gibraltar lights make the village foreign. November always seemed to me the Norway of the year." Emily Dickinson

"People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner." Dale Carnegie

Thanks to Lakshmi Kapoor for the last three.