War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

Thabo Mbeki

...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace.

Salman Rushdie

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Charles Montesquieu

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Erich Fromm

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

Kevin Patterson

The thoroughbred wanderer

Sir Richard Francis Burton, Pers

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Oscar Wilde

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

Leonardo da Vinci

Eyes shows lies.

Toba Beta

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

David Fasold

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Christopher Hitchens