Txoko, The Forum for Basque Critical Studies - A place for theorising politics and politicising theory. Mainly in English, some readings in Basque. Hosted by the London-based Institute of Basque Studies.
Peace process in the Basque Country - New paradigms for new times: Peace process and conflict resolution in the Basque Country. A forum of ideas set up at the University of Surrey by Imanol Galfarsoro and Francisco Moraiz.
Foro Eruma - Organisation for civic rights and peace. Website in Spanish and French.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Politics "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Politics
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Politics If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Politics
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Politics Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Politics
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Politics
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Politics Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Politics "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Politics
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Politics "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Politics
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Politics "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Politics
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Politics "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Politics
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Politics Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Politics
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Politics Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Politics
