Dietmar Hamann Quotes & Sayings

I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn't the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. — Alan Moore

My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid. — Katherine Stinson

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms. — Henry George Bohn

There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it. — Patrick Ness

Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain. — Frederic Bastiat

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation. — C.S. Lewis

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side — Thomas Sowell

When I forget the gospel I become dependent on the smiles and evaluation of others. — Timothy Keller

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life. — Yo-Yo Ma

Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions. — Paul Theroux

This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!
-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz — Karen Quan

EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play? — Margaret Atwood

What is and isn't justified by military necessity is, naturally, open to interpretation. One of the key concepts, though, is the law of proportionality. A military attack that results in civilian casualties - 'collateral damage' - is acceptable as long as the military benefits outweigh the price that is paid by humanity. — Sebastian Junger