There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
Joan KirnerTags: 1994
Kim Jong Il, incidentally, has been made head of the party and of the army, but the office of the presidency is still 'eternally' held by his adored and departed dad, who died on July 8, 1994, at 82. (The Kim is dead. Long live the Kim.) This makes North Korea the only state in the world with a dead president. What would be the right term for this? A necrocracy? A thanatocracy? A mortocracy? A mausolocracy? Anyway, grimly appropriate for a morbid system so many of whose children have died with grass in their mouths.
Christopher HitchensTags: north-korea kim-jong-il kim-il-sung 1994 eternal-president korean-people-s-army politics-of-north-korea workers-party-of-korea
personal well-being serves solely to excavate within your soul a chasm which waits to be filled by a landslide of dread, an empty mold whose peculiar dimensions will one day manufacture the shape of your unique terror
Thomas LigottiTags: terror 1994 medusa personal-well-being
To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical conscience, is to stand against those who try to incubate a Reformation in the Muslim world.
Christopher HitchensTags: religion islam reformation salman-rushdie 1994
Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
Salman RushdieTags: racism human-rights freedom-of-expression cultural-relativism 1994
Would that cricketers had better lines, or at least that their most famous were not also their tritest or most banal. 'This thing can be done,' said Fred Spofforth in 1882. 'We'll get 'em in singles,' George Hirst did not say twenty years later. 'You guys are history,' growled Devon Malcolm in 1994. 'You've just dropped the World Cup,' Steve Waugh may have crowed in 1999. At least two of these could have been put into the mouth of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Rodney UlyateTags: 1882 sport cliche cricket 1994 1999 1902 arnold-schwarzenegger devon-malcolm fred-spofforth george-hirst steve-waugh
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