Erasthenes Quotes & Sayings

amassed at Wenden and, unless they — Peter Darman

By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western Christian civilisation': France, imperial Germany, the Habsburg Reich, Poland with its self-image as przedmurze (bastion), even tsarist Russia. Each of these nation-state myths identified "barbarism" as the condition or ethic of their immediate eastward neighbour: for the French, the Germans were barbarous, for the Germans it was the Slavs, for the Poles the Russians, for the Russians the Mongol and Turkic peoples of Central Asia and eventually the Chinese. — Neal Ascherson

Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them. — Lucretius

You don't approach a case with the philosophy of applying abstract justice-you go in to win — Percy Foreman

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals. — Anna Funder

When will the death
Of Death ever come?
from The Siege — Visar Zhiti

Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something ... — Zach Braff

So long as the stereotype is used as a way of understanding how to fix the problem as opposed to demonizing a people or writing them off, then I think it's OK. — Malcolm Gladwell

The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn