The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: life nature earth humankind europe aviation iceland 2010 2010-eruptions-eyjafjallajokull butterfly-effect eruption-columns eyjafjallajokull volcanic-ash volcanoes
Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties?
Roman PayneTags: moon scholarship balance quote novel ancient-greece greece lifestyle europe ancient-greeks roman-payne novel-quote full-moon beauties cycles the-wanderess
That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest all you want, but you were born on the wrong continent.
Thomas GeogheganTags: humor reading books americans europe
Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
James A. MichenerTags: history war civilization europe poland
Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of Europe, the perfidy of the Third World and the need for nuclear defense policy? Question: Which Mediterranean government is Ronald Reagan trying, with the help of George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, to replace with a government led by a party which professes socialism and which contains extreme leftists?
If you answered 'the government of Israel' to both of the above, you know more about political and international irony than the President does.
Tags: united-states europe socialism terrorism soviet-union israel third-world united-nations leftism cold-war 1980s mediterranean-sea caspar-weinberger george-p-shultz israel-united-states-relations national-missile-defense presidency-of-ronald-reagan ronald-reagan
And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded not as the enemy of the Jewish people, I learned, but as the common enemy of humanity and of civilisation, and has to be fought against very tenaciously for that reason, most especially in its current, most virulent form of Islamic Jihad. Daniel Pearl's revolting murderer was educated at the London School of Economics. Our Christmas bomber over Detroit was from a neighboring London college, the chair of the Islamic Students' Society. Many pogroms against Jewish people are being reported from all over Europe today as I'm talking, and we can only expect this to get worse, and we must make sure our own defenses are not neglected. Our task is to call this filthy thing, this plague, this—this pest, by its right name; to make unceasing resistance to it, knowing all the time that it's probably ultimately ineradicable, and bearing in mind that its hatred towards us is a compliment, and resolving (some of the time, at any rate) to do a bit more to deserve it. Thank you.
Christopher HitchensTags: murder war tyranny christmas civilisation fascism islam racism jews europe london speeches jihad detroit pogroms ahmed-omar-saeed-sheikh anti-semitism daniel-pearl northwest-airlines-flight-253 umar-farouk-abdulmutallab
Tags: politics delusion europe 2008 barack-obama hero-worship united-states-elections-2008
The 'Renaissance' West Butchered the Rest.
If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of bodies of slaves and trampled humanity through colonization
Tags: art europe india west renaissance
The Abbe de Saint-Pierre suggested an association of all the states of Europe to maintain perpetual peace among themselves. Is this association practicable, and supposing that it were established, would it be likely to last?
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: europe
Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.
Santosh KalwarTags: america funny joke europe countries asia poetry-quotes
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