20th-century Journalist Quotes

The guerrilla fights the war of the flea, and his military enemy suffers the dog's disadvantage: too much to defend; too small, ubiquitous, and agile an enemy to come to grips with.

Number theory... is a field of almost pristine irrelevance to everything except the wondrous demonstration that pure numbers, no more substantial than Plato's shadows, conceal magical laws and orders that the human mind can discover after all.

The Russians have a saying … Moscow is downhill from all the Russias, meaning that the best of everything flows down into Moscow.

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.

Kathrine Switzer

Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

Susan Brownmiller

I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe.

Arthur Rothstein

I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

Robert D. Kaplan

There is often grace in silence. But there is always power in understanding.

Militant Muslims want Islam and sharia law to dominate the West. Their goal is to subvert the U.S. Constitution and our way of life to the will of Allah. The word Islam means submission. What members of the American Left seem blind to is the fact that in countries where Islam dominates, their progressive ideas would be crushed and many of them would be thrown in jail simply because of their lifestyle choices. Yet, the American Left continues to serve as apologist-in-chief for fundamentalist Islam. Why? Because deep down American Leftists are terrified of Islamic fundamentali

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

Gil Courtemanche

Pornography is many things to many men. But it is never adult. Pornography exists in a state of perpetual adolescence... Planet porn is Disneyland for habitual monkey-spankers.

PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.

All enduring love between two people, however startling or unconventional, feels unalterable, predestined, compelling, and intrinsically normal to the couple immersed in it.

Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by the time I was fourteen, I found the real people around me saying and doing far more interesting things than did the imaginary book characters.

Maxine Cheshire

Eichmann was in every respect a painstaking bureaucrat. He at once recorded in the files every discussion he ever had with any of his superiors. He always told me that the most important thing was to be covered at all times by one's superiors. He shunned all personal responsibility and took care to shelter behind his superiors - in this case Mueller and Kaltenbrunner - and inveigle them into accepting liability for his actions.

Dieter Wisliceny

God draws no distinction between Himself and us. God opens up the union of the very godhead (Trinity), and brings us into it.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

Everyone starts at the beginning of the road, and the world is in an endless state of childhood.

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

Alma Guillermoprieto

All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,

George V. Higgins

When astronomers express dissatisfaction with both the Big Bang and the Steady State concepts of the universe, they are in trouble, because it is hard to imagine radical alternatives.