Fauteuil Salon Quotes

#1. War is just a racket ... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

Smedley Butler

#2. It is the only thing we can do. ... Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate added to this world makes it still more inhospitable. - ETTY HILLESUM29

Matthieu Ricard

#3. They think thee mad? I'll show thou mad, my lord.

Phar West Nagle

#4. You don't have to climb a mountain to find out whether or not it's high.

Paulo Coelho

#5. We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it.

Jonathan Kozol

#6. We're so intelligent now that we're too smart to survive. We're so well informed that we lost all sense of meaning. We know the price of everything, but we've lost all sense of value. We have everyone under surveillance, but we've lost all sense of shame.

Bruce Sterling

#7. Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

John Evelyn