We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
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Quote for Today: Paul Dermée
Is it a world in the making that turns as it whistles to the depths of my being It is burning Suppose it were to appear A bleeding rosary at the window a sun setting on the marshlands ―Paul Dermée, "The Silver Clasp", The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology Kuwaiti oil fires, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Paul Dermée
Quote for Today: J.M. Coetzee
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard … Continue reading Quote for Today: J.M. Coetzee
Quote for Today: Iain M. Banks
It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty in both the weaponry of war and the violence and devastation which that weaponry was capable of inflicting, and yet it knew that attractiveness stemmed … Continue reading Quote for Today: Iain M. Banks
Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore. ―Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Quote for Today: Bill Watterson
“How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models.” ―Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Quote for Today: Simone Weil
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict. --Simone Weil
Quote for Today: John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. --John F. Kennedy
Warrior Dance: Maori Haka Peruperu from New Zealand
Modern weaponry has changed what it means to be a warrior. Showy technical skills are little use against bullets and rocket propelled grenades. I think most of us remember this poor guy from Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Video via Patrick Roe via YouTube. There was a time, however, when there was room … Continue reading Warrior Dance: Maori Haka Peruperu from New Zealand
Quote for Today: Lori Lifsey
When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help. ...Even in times of trauma, we try to maintain a sense of normality until we no longer can. That, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Lori Lifsey