quote of the day

‎“the world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”

– albert einstein

quote of the day

“character is indeed rare in this world, and it takes only a little intelligence to trim your course as circumstances might require, for who is there to point our your mistakes?  thus in politics, realism is always right, even if it is morally wrong.”

-Combat “Intelligence and Character” August 29, 1944


quote of the day

“water, water, everywhere
and all the boards did shrink
water, water everywhere
nor any drop to drink.”

-samuel taylor coleridge, the rime of the ancient mariner

quote of the day

“…if beneath all our criticisms and detestations of America’s vulgarity, misuse of power, and sheer pompous stupidity there has been still some optimistic love affair with the secret potentialities of this nation, some buried unvoiced faith that the nature of America was finally good, and not evil, well, that faith has taken a pistol whipping in the last months.  the romance seems not even tragic or doomed, but dirty and misplaced.”

-norman mailer, cannibals and christians