Clergyman's

“Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.”
— Rupert Murdoch

“When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“That feeling. That’s the real difference in a life. People who live on solid ground, underneath safe skies, know nothing of this; they are like the English POWs in Dresden who continued to pour tea and dress for dinner, even as the alarms went off, even as the city became a towering ball of fire. Born of a green and pleasant land, a temperate land, the English have a basic inability to conceive of disaster, even when it is man-made.”
— Zadie Smith