Quotations

“As more than 1,000 Iranian men, women and children lay dead after days of bombardment from U.S. and Israeli missiles, the official White House X account on Thursday evening posted a video of scenes from popular action movies spliced with actual strike footage from their war on Iran. The clip was captioned: ‘JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY.’ A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, including scores of children who made the fatal mistake of going to school that day. Six U.S. soldiers have been killed. They are also dishonored by that social media post. Hundreds of thousands displaced, and many millions more are terrified across the Middle East.”

Cardinal Cupich of Chicago yesterday

"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life."
Edith Hamilton, Saturday Evening Post (27 September 1958)

“In truth, poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.”

Walter Bagehot, Essay On The Waverley Novels (1858)

“Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not Governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future.”
P. D. James, The Children of Men (1992)

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
Czeslaw Milosz

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