Conflict is a constant in this world; it has intellectual, physical, and indeed metaphysical dimensions. Authors who distill life experiences – and past archives of pragmatic principial knowledge – in the arena of conflict for the benefit of one audience may be extremely useful reading. Books are tools and potentially weapons, take for example Curzio […]
Quotes
So, did V. I. Lenin really say ‘Destroy the Family, You Destroy the Country’?
“The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it’s difficult to discern whether or not they are genuine.” – attributed to Abraham Lincoln, 1761. Many very well meaning people, through a partial breakdown of critical thinking, find themselves peddling along themes quotes and ideas that they haven’t fully verified. So what of this quote: […]
7 Interesting Quotes, for 12 January 2012
“I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.” – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke “..As they sit down at the table, Trapping the media’s narrow view They prepare for their intervention, A military misadventure or two People today ask fewer questions, Accepting the […]
Ennui and a dull blade, Thoughts on High Fidelity (2000)
“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because […]