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Monthly Archives: February 2008

On terrorists and their role in government

“We are not ruled by murderers, but only–by their friends.”
Kipling included this statement in an article denouncing Irish nationalist MPs for associating with terrorists.
Source, Kipling by Jad Adams

On Hillary Clinton’s latest attacks on Obama

“She was clever, witty, brilliant and sparkling beyond most of her kind; but possessed of many devils of malice and mischievousness.”
Source, Kipling by Jad Adams

On Al Qaeda Training Children to Kill

“[W]hen young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of Hate, Suspicion, and Despair, all the Love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge.”
Source: Kipling by Jad Adams

On the Issue of Waterboarding

“I had never heard of Hell, so I was introduced to it in all its terrors.”
Source: Kipling by Jad Adams

On the subprime mortgage financial crisis

“Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should,
We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good.”
Source: Kipling by Jad Adams

On Kirsten Dunst going to rehab

“I’ve taken my fun where I’ve found it,
An’ now I must pay for my fun,
For the more you ’ave known o’ the others
The less will you settle to one;
An’ the end of it’s sittin’ and thinkin’,
An’ dreamin’ Hell-fires to see;
So be warned by [...]

On the presidential candidates

“Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.”

On the marriage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy–many French citizens believe that he is ignoring his duties

“Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.”

On the New England Patriots leaving the field without congratulating the New York Giants

“There’s no jealousy in the grave.”
From the “The Eye of Allah”