Garrity Rule Quotes & Sayings

When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth. — John Pilger

Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear? — Blaise Pascal

He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death. — Umberto Eco

I look as young as a person can look given how old I am. — Nora Ephron

When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation. — Julian Baggini