There are some Arabs who think that the Germans did the right thing by the Jews. This makes it easy to recruit Arab terrorist. - John le Carré

there is no reward for love except the experience of loving, and nothing to be learned by it except humility.

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

The reaction to 9/11 is beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. As in McCarthy times, the freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded. The combination of compliant US media and vested corporate interests is once more ensuring that a debate that should be ringing out in every town square is confined to the loftier columns of the East Coast press.