The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.
~ Charles Dickens
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Monthly Archives: April 2024
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That democratic socialism, the great utopia of the last few generations, is not only unachievable, but that to strive for it produces something so utterly different that few of those who wish it would be prepared to accept the consequences, many will not believe until the connection has been laid bare in all its aspects.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Whatever else it is, Jewish nationalism — that is, Zionism — is the oldest continuous anticolonial movement in history, starting well before the Romans sought to de-Judaize the area by calling their Levantine colony Palestina. Hanukkah, the festival of lights, is one such reminder, celebrating the recovery of Jerusalem from colonizing Greeks in the second century B.C.E.
~ Brett Stephens via The New York Times
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Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
~ Henry James
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Campus Life at the
London School of Economics
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Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Campus Life at the
University of Edinburgh
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An editor—especially a brilliant one, as I’ve been lucky to have—pushes against your ideas, hones your writing, demands that you express yourself with the utmost clarity.
~ Gal Beckerman via The Atlantic
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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