Quotes of the Week - June 17, 2008:
"I think that, in retrospect, I could have used a different rhetoric.
Phrases such as 'bring them on' or 'dead of alive' indicated to people
that I was, you know, not a man of peace." -- US President George
W Bush regrets being so hawkish over Iraq.
"The nation will live to regret what the court has done today."
-- US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after the court rules foreign
terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in US
courts.
"He didn't like the nose" -- Courtroom sketch artist Janet
Hamlin on the response of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed
mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, after he saw a sketch of himself.
Authors:
Eugene Ionesco Quotes, Famous Eugene Ionesco Quotes
A
civil servant doesn't make jokes. Eugene Ionesco The Killer
All
history is nothing but a succession of 'crises' - of rupture,
repudiation and resistence….when there is no 'crisis',
there is stagnation, petrification and death. Eugene Ionesco
An
avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on
destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of
government, an established form of expression is also a form
of oppression. Eugene Ionesco
Banality
is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. Eugene Ionesco
Beauty
is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and
that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and
a sign of death as well. Eugene Ionesco Present Past - Past Present
Boredom!
I've got so used to that. You get used to it, or rather, you
don't get used to it, but you get used to not getting used to
it. Eugene Ionesco Jean, in Journeys Among The Dead
If
God exists, why write literature? And if he doesn't, why write
literature? Eugene Ionesco Non
Life
is an abnormal business. Eugene Ionesco Jean, in The Rhinoceros
Shakespeare
was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Eugene Ionesco
Since
the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives,
since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything
that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind
us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop
it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering
and fear are born from the repression of the death wish. Eugene Ionesco Fragments of a Journal
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