Quotations

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." Marshall McLuhan

"Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence." Orwell

"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois." Gustave Flaubert

'I can recall my Course Lecturer always emphasizing that "Globalization is a new concept for an old world order"'. Seen on Facebook

“Unlike eight years ago, countries can no longer wish away the implications of a United States that might not support them in a crisis. Instead, over the next decade, it is likely that U.S. allies will start to noticeably drift away.” Robert Kelly and Paul Poast, Foreign Affairs, December 8, 2025. Americans split infinitives with abandon.