Browsing PBH By Quotes

A Curse And A Crux

“Never to be yourself, yet always.” – Virginia Woolf

Berlusconi, In Short

I am the Jesus Christ of Italian politics. I’m a patient victim. I put up with everything. I sacrifice myself for everyone.

– Silvio Berlusconi, campaigning during the 2006 election

Who Needs Books?

Unruly, booze-fuelled mobs also broke into Sears at Robson and Howe. One looter managed to break into Chapters bookstore, but apparently no one bothered entering.

The Province newspaper reporting on rioting in Vancouver (taken from Riot brought under control but looting, damage across Vancouver’s downtown widespread)

Professional Clown Offers Opinion

Tom Smith, a professional clown who has lived in a three-bedroom co-op on Riverside Drive in Hamilton Heights for seven years, is torn about the new campus. He said he did not like the institution’s use of eminent domain to get its hands on some key parcels. “I’m not really an eminent-domain kind of guy,” he said.

Yet he thinks Columbia will help curb street crime, which in turn may make the area a more pleasant place to walk. “There will be a lot less chicanery and hustling going around,” he said.

Via the New York Times: Hamilton Heights: Awaiting a Bounce

Resign Yourself To Doing Something

Protest is when I say I don’t like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.”

Ulrike Meinhof in From Protest to Resistance