To speak the truth is easy and pleasant.
-Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, 1997 Penguin Edition
Tag: Quotes
Nietzsche on Madness
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 156.
Edward Snowden on the Right to Privacy
Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
-Edward Snowden, 2015
Flags Are Bits of Colored Cloth
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
-Arundhati Roy, Come September, Speech, September 29, 2002
A Truly Great Library
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
–Jo Godwin
Fallacies Do Not Cease To Be Fallacies
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
–G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, April 19, 1930