Quotes

[il_bilge]

"If you reach a verdict of death... remember that I am a military man and should be killed by firing squad and not by hanging as a common criminal"

Saddam Hussein, former ruler of Iraq, requesting his method of execution during his trial for crimes against humanity. The court is expected to deliver a verdict in October

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"Our little neignbors to the north should not fear. I am not planning to be in office at that age."

Fidel Castro, Cuban President, noting that more Cubans are living to be 100 years old, thanks to his country's social-welfare system. Playfully needling the US, Castro -who turns 80 next week- suggested he would step down before he reaches that milestone

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"It is not in my judgement the most glorious page on my country's history."

Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong, when asked during visit to the territory why Britain did not do more to introduce democratic reforms in Hong Kong while it was a colony



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[küçükkarabalık]

"Be happy today, tomorrow will be worser." Murphy's Laws

from Sylvia Plath:

Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you."

[il_bilge]

“It doesn’t get easier, you learn to live with it and go through the next day.”

PAUL SCHERTZER , at the World Trade Center site. His son Scott worked on the 104th floor of the North Tower and was killed Sept. 11, 2001

[il_bilge]

“I felt like this was a great point in my career, and I deserved to lie down.”

ROGER FEDERER ,after winning his ninth Grand Slam tennis title at the U.S. Open

[il_bilge]

“So, it looks like he could be working directly with President Bush.”

JAY LENO, on Clay Aiken being named to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities

[antropolog]

How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

from Alexander Pope's poem "Eloisa to Abelard"

[antropolog]

"War makes states and states make war."
Charles Tilly

[il_bilge]

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones...

A. Einstein


I never think of the future - it comes soon enough

A. Einstein

[il_bilge]

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

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"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome... (The Antichrist Section 2)

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. (The Dawn, Sec. 297)


Friedrich NIETZSCHE