Nur al-Cubicle

A blog on the current crises in the Middle East and news accounts unpublished by the US press. Daily timeline of events in Iraq as collected from stories and dispatches in the French and Italian media: Le Monde (Paris), Il Corriere della Sera (Milan), La Repubblica (Rome), L'Orient-Le Jour (Beirut) and occasionally from El Mundo (Madrid).

Wednesday, May 31, 2006

George Bernard Shaw Quotation Day

  • Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
  • A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
  • Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
  • Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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