Rawand

“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.”
― John Keats

“Your library is your paradise.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

“Fallujah was a Guernica with no Picasso. A city of 300,000 was deprived of water, electricity, and food, emptied of most of its inhabitants who ended up parked in camps. Then came the methodical bombing and recapture of the city block by block. When soldiers occupied the hospital, The New York Times managed to justify this act on grounds that the hospital served as an enemy propaganda center by exaggerating the number of casualties. And by the way, just how many casualties were there? Nobody knows, there is no body count for Iraqis. When estimates are published, even by reputable scientific reviews, they are denounced as exaggerated. Finally, the inhabitants were allowed to return to their devastated city, by way of military checkpoints, and start to sift through the rubble, under the watchful eye of soldiers and biometric controls.”
― Jean Bricmont, Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War