#ola

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#army #arrival #comrades #conjecture #could

I think Polanski's an amazing director. ↗

— David Duchovny

#director #i #i think #polanski #think

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#deny #ever #existed #kill #obsessed

My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#box #difficult #going #him #his

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#does #education #his #humiliated #naturally

As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the human language is the possibility of lying. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#call #features #human #human language #i

I see people detained for simple INS violations. ↗

— Sibel Edmonds

#i #i see #people #see #simple

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#know #observe #rules #them #until

They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fukú on the world, and we've all been in the shit ever since. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#antilles #curse #demon #enslaved #fukú