"If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question."

“Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?”

Source : "Fictional character: Curly". "Busy Buddies", www.imdb.com. 1944.

“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.”

“Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!”

Source : "Not the Greatest" by Robert Lipsyte, www.slate.com. November 9, 2011.

“A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s referred to themselves as hackers. Around 1980, journalists who discovered the hacker community mistakenly took the term to mean “security breaker.””

“Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually by nature; and to revere the ancestors. We are all haunted and saved by our memories.”

“A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of ***** and the grunting of hogs.”

“Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not even churches protest when Christians are put in prison for their faith.”

“I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de