Golo Quotes

#1. Let me give you a lesson on war, Golo. Rule number one: never invade Russia.

Martin Amis

#2. How can one find the first moment of love? When,in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?

Susan Abulhawa

#3. While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

Ethan Allen

#4. The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence.

Elie Wiesel

#5. I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet).

Mary Schiavo

#6. Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

Golo Mann

#7. As we have seen in the data, resentment against the West comes from what Muslims perceive as the West's hatred and denigration of Islam; the Western belief that Arabs and Muslims are inferior,; and their fear of Western intervention, domination, or occupation. (p. 141)

John L. Esposito

#8. It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.

Golo Mann

#9. Ewan played it cool, looking back at Sebastian. "Are their names on the list?"
Sebastian didn't miss a beat. "No sir."
"But he isn't holding a list," the girl whined.
( ... ) "Is my name of the list?" I teased Sebastian.
"What list?" he said, deadpan. "Go on back?

Jaye Wells

#10. Women, she realized, were scared to be assholes. And what is any artist, really, but someone who doesn't mind being an asshole? That was when she birthed her plan: Be an Asshole.

Jade Chang

#11. A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton