Race You to the Bed Table!
Posted on February 2, 2008 in Quotes
“If you’ve got a Hillary and McCain race, you’ve got a third option: That’s the pistol on the bed table.”
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Non-Participation in Anything You Believe Is Evil
Posted on January 27, 2008 in Quotes
“I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.”
– Albert Einstein (and you can listen to him say it and there is more on Einstein’s views and correspondence with Gandhi here)
Socio-Economic Equality?
Posted on January 25, 2008 in Quotes
“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
– Martin Luther King
Obama-mania
Posted on January 20, 2008 in Quotes
“Disgraced today throughout the four corners of the globe, America would in a single leap resume its lost grace, its capacity to inspire the imagination, that combination of myth and reality that makes it the country of all possibilities – the democracy par excellence that has such power of seduction and likeability, despite all of its gaping flaws.”
From an editorial of the French newspaper Libération (and via Ablogistan)
Searching for Bobby Fischer’s Uncircumcised Penis
Posted on January 18, 2008 in Quotes
“I’m very concerned because I think the Jews want to drive the elephants to extinction because the trunk of an elephant reminds them of an uncircumcised penis… I’m absolutely serious about that.”
American chess-great Bobby Fischer, who died today.
