52 Quotes

All My Sons by Arthur Miller My rating: 3 of 5 stars Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, is a sad tale of loss in war, the least of w...

Who expects miracles? Do you? Do they require faith, luck or magic? Are they answers to pleading with deities or are they rare events w...

How likely is it that we might revert to the animal instinct of not showing weakness in case we are pounced upon? Orwell (1936) in hi...

'Water, water, everywhere, Nor a drop to drink.'   Coleridge, S. T.  (1798, 1817) Rime of the Ancient Mariner We may...

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Kay Joy Fowler (2013) teaches us much about kinship. Sometimes it means beginning in the midd...

Author Harper Lee passed away on the 19th of this month and having read and been inspired by To Kill a Mockingbird, I turned to her othe...

The Big Short told the story of the 2007/8 housing market collapse and banking irregularities and the subsequent economic collapse in an e...

'Room' by Emma Donoghhue has had a great movie interpretation of the book, capturing the atmosphere, characters and situation ...

'For my own sake I must forgive you.  One cannot always keep an adder in ones breast to feed on one nor rise up every night to sow ...

The Dalai Lama (2012) in his book 'Beyond Religion' talks of 'ethics for a whole world' and speaks of the following ...

We strive to be better. To develop. To learn. To be 'that better self' as George Elliot would put it. Organised religion doesn'...

'Our Man in Havana' is a comic look at international espionage and the role and unreliability of informants in state affairs and ...

I watched Back to the Future in 1985 and imagined a future like Marty McFly's. We had remote control TV, the home computer game Pon...

'The Martian' by Andy Weir is a wonderful tale of survival against the odds. Although the odds were better for a botanist's b...

Neil Gaiman, in a lecture quoted in the Guardian, discuses how the term 'escapism' is 'bandied about as if its a bad thing...

Would we bother doing anything if we just accepted our lot? What would be the point? Nothing to be gained. We'd probably be happier....

Quotes on war and peace for every week of the year. I chose the 52 I could most identify with from the hundreds on Anti-War.com . For...