Occluding Quotes

#1. Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?

Roma Tearne

#2. A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.

Abraham Kaplan

#3. The moment demanded action and all we had was paralysis.

Glen Duncan

#4. For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'

Martin Clunes

#5. Why should there be something rather than nothing?

Thomas Ligotti

#6. Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and mysticism. Yet

Owen Hopkins

#8. I steeled myself for this interaction. Fact: I knew I could talk to people. Fact: Children were little people. Little, scary people. I took solace in the fact that if this demonstration went horribly wrong, I could probably outrun them.

Conor Grennan

#9. When people's emotions are involved they don't want to listen.

Bette Greene

#10. Tiago decided he enjoyed armchair warfare. It was so comfortable, and there were pastries.

Thea Harrison

#11. If it is to be taken seriously again, the Left must find its voice. There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitation at home and abroad; corruption and money and privilege occluding the arteries of democracy.

Tony Judt