Quotations

'This virus will spread more. I have to say it with regret that there will be more deaths. If people do take care they can live with the virus.’
Prime Minister Imran Khan telling Pakistan that it cannot afford to lockdown any longer.

Kyle Harper's Fate of Rome is SO interesting about how the Plague of Cyprian hugely increased the power of Christianity, and then the Justinian plague radically reshaped Christianity (and led to the rise of Islam). we're seeing something similar https://t.co/9zbOD1dTWB

— Ed West (@edwest) June 3, 2020

'We Europeans were sold a dream. We were told that our existence could transcend the geographical boundaries of our native region and nation state. That dream actually came true for many of us. It found expression in a new existential space in the interstices of European states. Yet that fluid and geographically promiscuous experience of life and work shared by millions of citizens – be they seasonal fruit-pickers, students, professionals or jobseekers – is all of a sudden threatened by the inability of the European project to safeguard its own achievements.'Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law at HEC Paris and Global Clinical Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.

'Some of the most civilized and highly organized cultures, like Carthage at its wealthiest, had human sacrifice at its worst. Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.' G. K. Chesterton

Or, for those of a religious turn of mind, it's also St Boniface's Day. https://t.co/3LTRVq3ewu

— Eccles (@BruvverEccles) June 3, 2020

"It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest," Egbert of Liège, verse 148 of his Fecunda Ratis (nidos commaculans immundus habebitur ales).

Dear @Channel4News,

Thanks for inviting me on to get a more 'balanced' analysis of current racial tensions, then cancelling me in favour of a left-wing comedian, a left-wing MP, and a left-wing 'Professor of White People Studies'.

Cowardly.

— Mercy Muroki (@MercyMuroki) June 2, 2020

Does it tell you where to steal the best shoes? https://t.co/tZlgiUDfcV

— Eccles (@BruvverEccles) June 3, 2020

“The idea that we were ancestrally dark skinned before diversifying as we crept around the globe is now known to be incorrect. Not only were we diverse in our skin colour long before the dispersal from Africa, we were diverse in our skin colour before we were our own species.”

— Tom Holland (@holland_tom) June 1, 2020