Babies haven’t any hair;    Old men’s heads are just as bare;– Between the cradle and the grave    Lies a haircut and a shave.   –Samuel Hoffenstein

Take up the White Man’s burden—     Send forth the best ye breed— Go, bind your sons to exile     To serve your captives’ need; To wait, in heavy harness,     On fluttered folk and wild— Your new-caught sullen peoples,     Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man’s burden—     In patience to abide, To veil the [...]

  “My Jesu swet I go to mete His body is my soles delete. Always I rise from the glomby earth When Jesu sucketh me with his swet mouth.”   –attributed to St. Dorothea of Montau, ca. 1390 Dorethea was an ascetic, flagellant, ecstatic visionary, immured alive in the walls of the Marienwerder Cathedral, Danzig [...]

“They do not bear arms, and do not know them…They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane…They would make fine servants…With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” –Christopher Columbus, from his log, regarding the Arawak Indians of the Bahama Islands. When he arrived on Hispaniola [...]

“Permanent peace is not possible because we are human beings. But there are chances for relative peace, and peace for longer periods. For that, one needs to make an effort.” –The Dalai Lama