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“It is all well and good us condemning the journalism of Ward Price or Tucker Carlson or praising the determination of journalists like John Segrue or Norman Ebbutt. But ultimately, it is those of us who consume journalism and social media who have unwittingly created a media environment where proximity to power is valued more highly than the holding of it to account. It is us, as a society, who again and again have responded to the exposure of populists’ lies and contradictions with little more than a collective shrug. The truth is that there will always be George Ward Prices – journalists who have extreme political beliefs, who are prepared to put their careers over the public interest, or both. Until we learn the lesson of the dark path down which Ward Price’s brand of journalism can lead, we will continue to see journalism that divides us by appealing to our worst instincts have precedence over journalism that does the difficult and complex work of shining a light that helps us better understand our world.”
― Richard Evans, Interviewing Hitler: How George Ward Price Became the World's Most Famous Journalist

“as if aristocratic Aristotle’s endorsement was the kiss of moral death, as if a truth could not be tangled up with moral ugliness.”
― Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life

“Love has always had its critics. They range far and wide throughout history, from Plato and the Neoplatonists, to the Rabbinic and Christian interpreters of the Song of Songs, from the clerics behind the savage Albigensian Crusade, to the seventeenth-century English Puritan author William Prynne, who never met a joy he failed to condemn. Love has never lacked for those who try to tame it for “higher” purposes, or those who would argue that “the worst evils have been committed in the name of love”. At the same time, love has always had its passionate defenders, though these have more often tended to be poets—the Ovids, Shakespeares, and Donnes—than critics of poetry.”
― Michael Bryson, Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden

“The very strategies of security that are meant to secure and reassure generate insecurity and neurosis (Isin 20024).”
― Fraser McDonald, Observant States: Geopolitics and Visual Culture