Let the Riots Stop

I am not taking a stand in any way on what has happened in Tunisia or Egypt. Life is complicated enough in my little corner most days. But there are some quotes I have been saving and they seem somehow or another fitting. Don't ask me why- I do intuition better that logic...

Laurens Van der Post (1906-1996). South African writer, journalist, conservationist, and strong opposer of apartheid knows of what he wrote.....

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), British philosopher, economist, moral and political theorist, and administrator speaks for the rights of the minority and freedom....

"If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind."

Unknown, quite prolific source, sums up way too much....

"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."

"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."