Quotations

Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz:

"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucidydes, for Newton and Euclid, and I find myself much the happier." 

Thomas Jefferson writing to John Adams

"Putin chose war over peace this spring because his spies and generals told him that Ukraine is on the brink of collapse. Alarmingly, they may be right. Ukraine is running out of fighting men, its frontline soldiers are exhausted and US military support has narrowed to focus on air defence. The Kyiv government is racked by corruption scandals and purges, public faith in their future and in their leaders is tanking and pressure to make peace at almost any price is growing." 

Owen Matthews in the latest Spectator

"The goal of education in each century. 

753 BC - The cultivation of virtue 

33 AD - The cultivation of virtue 

313 AD - The cultivation of virtue 

800 AD - The cultivation of virtue 

1517 - The cultivation of virtue 

1865 - The cultivation of virtue 

2025 - College and career readiness"

Jeremy Tate

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." 

Friedrich Nietzsche

"So what's the plan here? We just sit and watch Israel starve Gaza to death with the support of our own governments? And then what? We just go along with our lives, knowing that that happened? That this is what we are as a society? That our civilization is comfortable allowing something like that to happen? And that our rulers could do the same thing to another inconvenient population at any time?" 

Caitlin Johnstone

"Across the West, censorship has become routine, dissent is increasingly criminalised, propaganda is blatant and legal systems are weaponised to suppress opposition. Even elections are being cancelled. Can we still speak of democracy?" 

Thomas Fazi

“I have a theory that ‘holidays’ evolved from the medieval pilgrimage, and are essentially a kind of penance for being so happy and comfortable in one's daily life.” 

Philip Larkin