"As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities."

-- W. G. Sebald

#Military Quotes #Cities Quotes #People Quotes

“I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.”
“That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.”
“The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.”
“I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.”
“I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.”
“Every hero is the villain of his own story.”
“I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a "hypaethral book," such as Thoreau talked about - a book open to the sky. It is best read and understood outdoors, and the farther outdoors the better. Or that has been my experience of it. Passages that within walls seem improbable or incredible, outdoors seem merely natural. This is because outdoors we are confronted everywhere with wonders; we see that the miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread.”

Source : Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.311, Counterpoint
“Americans have a healthy stupidity. That lack of sophistication is a secret superpower,”

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