“There were no bears, but at one point I disturbed an eagle on a ledge — and perhaps have seen nothing more beautiful than the one lazy flap of its wings that set it on a seemingly effortless vertical flight up the sun-warmed cliff behind it.” — the art-critic Brian Sewell describing a Turkish journey in Outsider II: Always Almost, Never Quite (2012).
Category Archives: Quotations
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #9 and #10
“One of mighty union-smashing Maggie’s few big mistakes – along with increasing comprehensive education, letting third-world immigration and enforced multiculturalism rip, leaving the NHS and BBC ‘safe in our hands’, smashing the fisheries, selling out the Northern Irish Protestants, increasing welfarism, ending academic freedom and trying to push through the Poll Tax – was to be unfriendly to German reunification.” — Chris Brand, gFactor.
“Homosexual men are nature’s Petri dishes.” — Greg Cochran, West Hunter.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #8
« Seul le silence est grand; tout le reste est faiblesse. » — Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863).
“Silence alone is great; all else is weakness.” — Alfred de Vigny.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #7
“I had, also, during many years followed a golden rule, namely, that whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.” — The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1958).
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #6
« Seuls les médiocres sont toujours à leur meilleur. » — Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944).
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.” — Jean Giraudoux.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #5
Что касается нас, то никогда мы не занимались кантиански-поповской, вегетариански-квакерской болтовней о “святости человеческой жизни”. Мы были революционерами в оппозиции и остались ими у власти. Чтобы сделать личность священной, нужно уничтожить общественный строй, который ее распинает. А эта задача может быть выполнена только железом и кровью.
Л.Д. Троцкий, Терроризм и коммунизм, IV. Терроризм.
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the “sacredness of human life”. We were revolutionaries in opposition, and have remained revolutionaries in power. To make the individual sacred we must destroy the social order that crucifies him. And this problem can be solved only by iron and blood.
Leon Trotsky, Terrorism and Communism, 4, Terrorism.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #4
“The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.” — H.L. Mencken (1880-1956).
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #3
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” — Laurence J. Peter (1919-90).
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow #2
Musica est exercitium arithmeticae occultum nescientis se numerare animi. — Leibniz.
Musik ist die versteckte arithmetische Tätigkeit der Seele, die sich nicht dessen bewußt ist, daß sie rechnet.
Music is a hidden arithmetic of the soul, which knows not that it calculates.
He Say, He Sigh, He Sow
“It’s only really in the last decade or so that I’ve started to engage seriously with what I think the implications of modernism are in terms of the novel…” – Will Self, The Observer, Sunday, 5th August, 2012.
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