“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
If the above is true than France is lagging behind in terms of both moral progress and greatness. This is not because of any military defeat in the past or the like. This is because [...]
“To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”
A new hotel that has recently opened in Berlin has been stylized in the manner of an East German Apartment block. In fact it is an adapted Plattenbauwohnung, which is a concrete [...]
“Action is my domain. It is not what I say but what I do that matters.”
In the past few years the fate of refugees has been much more uncertain than it ever was in the past. Over forty four million people have been driven from their homes by the Iraq war, Darfur and [...]
“Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.”
Abu Dujana, the leader of an Islamic extremist group called Jemaah Islamiah, who is believed to be responsible for the bombings of a popular Bali Nightclub in 2002 that killed 88 people, has been arrested by Indonesian police [...]
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it–always.”
Robert Mugabe’s violent reign as president of Zimbabwe has sent the country [...]
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
For the past seven years Aze Adine Ould Baja and his family have literally lived in the toilet. After his daughter was abducted he had to sell everything he owned in order to get her back. As a result, she was returned to her family but [...]
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
In a particularly disgusting display, performance artist Mark McGowan and Yoko Ono ate a Pembroke Welsh Corgi on a live London Radio Broadcast. They claim to have done this because on a hunt Prince Phillip shot a fox and then beat it to death [...]