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Aug 3, 2009 1:01am
“There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his conscience. Even the common soldier, serving in the ranks of his army, is not called upon to obey illegal orders.”
Hartley Shawcross, quoted in Michael R. Marrus, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945–45: A Documentary History (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1997), 88.
Hartley Shawcross, quoted in Michael R. Marrus, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945–45: A Documentary History (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1997), 88.
Aug 2, 2009 1:02pm
“Current law basically allows the Gawkers of the world to appropriate others’ work, repurpose it and sell ads against it …”
Ian Shapira, “The Death of Journalism (Gawker Edition),” The Washington Post, August 2, 2009.
Ian Shapira, “The Death of Journalism (Gawker Edition),” The Washington Post, August 2, 2009.
Aug 2, 2009 12:26pm
“We must establish incredible events by credible evidence.”
Robert H. Jackson on June 6, 1945 in a report to the president as the allies moved towards trying Nazis for criminal behavior, quoted in Michael R. Marrus, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945–46 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1997), 42.
Robert H. Jackson on June 6, 1945 in a report to the president as the allies moved towards trying Nazis for criminal behavior, quoted in Michael R. Marrus, The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial 1945–46 (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1997), 42.
Jul 29, 2009 6:23am
“What most people would view as truly bizarre, conspiracy theorists find energizing.”
Liz Halloran, “Why Do Doubts About Obama’s Birthplace Persist?,” NPR, July 29, 2009
Liz Halloran, “Why Do Doubts About Obama’s Birthplace Persist?,” NPR, July 29, 2009
Jul 29, 2009 6:22am
“Evidence … has been proved to feed conspiracies, rather than kill them.”
Liz Halloran, “Why Do Doubts About Obama’s Birthplace Persist?,” NPR, July 29, 2009
Liz Halloran, “Why Do Doubts About Obama’s Birthplace Persist?,” NPR, July 29, 2009
Jul 21, 2009 8:59pm
“Here chivalry disappeared for always. Like all noble and personal feelings it had to give way to the new tempo of battle and to the rule of the machine. Here the new Europe revealed itself for the first time in combat.”
Ernst Jünger, quoted in Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 144.
Ernst Jünger, quoted in Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 144.
Jul 21, 2009 10:13am
“Nothing could be less conservative than to fight for forms which in the course of time have lost their importance.”
Wilhelm von Kardorff, quoted in Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989; Boston: Mariner, 2000), 72.
Wilhelm von Kardorff, quoted in Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (1989; Boston: Mariner, 2000), 72.
Jul 19, 2009 4:32pm
“Countries acquired colonies before World War I much the same way they acquired battleships, and for much the same reasons.”
Leonard V. Smith, Stéphane Aoudoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker, France and the Great War 1914–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), p. 13.
Leonard V. Smith, Stéphane Aoudoin-Rouzeau, and Annette Becker, France and the Great War 1914–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), p. 13.
Jun 30, 2009 2:20pm
“It should not be necessary to argue that the model of a natural and self-adjusting economy, working providentially for the best good of all, is as much a superstition as the notions which upheld the paternalist model.”
E. P. Thompson, “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century,” Past & Present 50 (Feb. 1971): 76–136, quote on 91.
E. P. Thompson, “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century,” Past & Present 50 (Feb. 1971): 76–136, quote on 91.
Jun 26, 2009 10:01am
“If a man doesn’t get his due in one world, he can always get it in another. It’s a great pleasure to see and do new things.”
Voltaire, Candide, trans. and ed. by Daniel Gordon (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999), ch. 14, p. 68.
Voltaire, Candide, trans. and ed. by Daniel Gordon (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999), ch. 14, p. 68.
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