Tuesday, November 13, 2007
“Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.”
- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890), British consul, explorer, translator, writer, poet, Orientalist and swordsman.
“The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 – 1935), American judge and jurist: Court opinion Schenk v. United States, March 13, 1919.
“The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you’ve killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it’s ordinary murder.”
- Don DeLillo (b. 1926), American author: Frank Vásquez in “Libra”, 1988.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890), British consul, explorer, translator, writer, poet, Orientalist and swordsman.
“The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 – 1935), American judge and jurist: Court opinion Schenk v. United States, March 13, 1919.
“The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you’ve killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it’s ordinary murder.”
- Don DeLillo (b. 1926), American author: Frank Vásquez in “Libra”, 1988.
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