Divagando Magazine Quotes & Sayings

The ideal of toleration sounds like a formal condition allowing all flowers to bloom, but it turns out on examination to adumbrate a determinate form of life no less intrusive than the Sharia or "fundamentalist" Christianity. — Kenneth Minogue

You know, glass is pretty easy to break, Aria. Roar was watching here, his gaze thoughtful. — Veronica Rossi

Everything takes longer and costs more. — Jerry Pournelle

Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal ... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers ... by international action to ban such powers. — Peter Drucker

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart. — William Zinsser