Quote of the Day for 2016-09-24

"In politics evils should be remedied not revenged."

— Napoleon III (1808-1873) Des Idées Napoléoniennes (1839) Translated by James Augustus Dorr (1859)

The Tramp scene from A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Quote of the Day for 2016-04-05

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

— Plato (c. 428-348 BCE) Phaedo, chapter 115 (c. 348 BCE)

CEOs of the seven largest tobacco companies being sworn in at a congressional hearing on the regulation of tobacco products (April 14, 1994) Minutes after this photograph was taken, each of them would lie under oath that nicotine was not addictive. Left to right, Donald Johnston (American Tobacco), Thomas Sandefur (Brown and Williamson), Edward Horrigan (Liggett Group), Andrew Tisch (Lorillard), Joseph Taddeo (US Tobacco), James Johnston (RJ Reynolds), and William Campbell (Philip Morris)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-07

"The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils."

— George Orwell (1903-1950) "No, Not One," The Adelphi, October 1941

Banksy's Spy Booth at the confluence of St. Anne's Terrace, Hewlett Road, and Fairview Road near GCHQ in Cheltenham, UK (April 2014) Photograph by Matt Cardy

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-06

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings."

— Helen Keller (1880-1968) My Religion, chapter 6

The decomposed body of a German soldier, killed near the village of Beaumont-Hamel during the Battle of the Somme, November 1, 1916.