Quotations

"One needs to suffer from an extremely severe case of Western exceptionalism and moral blindness to believe that bombing Belgrade, Baghdad, Tripoli, Gaza, Damascus, Beirut and Tehran somehow upholds “order,” while countries meeting in Tianjin to discuss multilateral governance constitutes a threat to it. I believe there’s a biblical passage about precisely this, something around having a beam in one's eye while hunting for specks in others’ (Matthew 7:3-5)." Arnaud Bertrand

“You don't become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called The Geezers' Paradox.” Unknown

"No, deny it all you like, but our humanitarian intelligentsia has the same roots, the very same roots as the Bolsheviks." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Moran Gaz, the former head of the security cases division at the Southern District Prosecutor’s Office in Israel and a member of 'Team 7.10,' which is responsible for cases involving captured Palestinians in connection with the October 7 attacks recently admitted that her department has found no evidence to substantiate the claims of "mass" and "systematic" rape by Hamas. In an interview with Israeli media outlet Ynet, Moran said that the prosecutors are not filing a case on sexual assault or rape by Hamas militants as her department has failed to find any evidence despite having over fourteen months to investigate the claims." Times of India news item, 6 January 2025