Heraclitus

Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.

Planck

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.

Max Planck (1858-1947), Scientific Autobiography

Abortion

Flavius Josephus, a well-known Jewish historian who described the destruction of Jerusalem, wrote: "The law, moreover enjoins us to bring up all our offspring, and forbids women to cause abortion of what is begotten, or to destroy it afterward; and if any woman appears to have so done, she will be a murderer of her child, by destroying a living creature, and diminishing humankind."

Basil discards this distinction that has been supported by some church fathers as "subtle". The foetus is regarded as "a child that should have been born".

Gore Vidal

The New York Times, which refused to review his next five novels. He retains a special contempt for the paper, "which never found a well it could not poison".

Obama

Senator Obama's foreign policy seems to be somewhere between Rodney King's "Can't we just get along?" and Alfred E. Neuman's "What, me worry?" [Thomas Sowell]

Noel Coward

What Noel Coward once called Nescafe Society.

Alan Dershowitz

When even Harvard law professor and one-time member of O.J. Simpson’s so-called dream team Alan Dershowitz claims that over 90% of all criminal defendants are guilty.