Jim Sandefur

“He takes two tea bags in a four-ounce cup and he doesn’t mince words: when a pair of earnest British journalists once asked him how he thought the tigers could be saved, his answer, “AIDS,” caught them off guard.
“But don’t you care about people?” one of them asked.
“Not really,” he replied. “Especially not the Chinese.”
― John Vaillant, The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

“There is much irony in the fact that Anglo-American Middle East policy, from Operation Ajax, the deposing of democratically elected, socialist, secularist Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq in Iran in 1953, to Operation Iraqi Freedom, the overthrow of secular nationalist dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003, has served in fact, if not intention, to ensure the continuing hold of Islam over nearly all the countries of the region.”
― Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia And The Birth Of Civilization

“History may not repeat itself but, as Mark Twain said, it does rhyme.”
― Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon: Mesopotamia And The Birth Of Civilization

“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929”
― John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed