The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
Category Archive: 1898
Even paranoids have real enemies.
Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon – no alternative.
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don’t understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them.