Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives. Jerry Costello Read Quote
I usually dread writing non-fiction. I don’t feel comfortable or confident writing essays and the like. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you’ll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. Cameron Sinclair Read Quote
I wouldn’t say ‘Frances Ha’ is autobiographical, but it’s definitely very personal. Noah Baumbach Read Quote
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. Gore Vidal Read Quote
There are two books that I often travel with; one is ‘The Theory on Moral Sentiments’ by Adam Smith. The other is ‘The Meditations.’ It’s not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation. Wen Jiabao Read Quote
I loathe the word ‘celebrity,’ and I hope I’m not a diva. Whenever I see diva-ish behaviour, I just leave the room; I find it appalling. You should always try to be civil to people. David Harewood Read Quote