Sunday, March 30, 2008

Quote for the day

This could have come straight out of Catch 22 (which I finished yesterday; highly recommended). But it actually came from an American-born Japanese student during the escalation of the Sino-Japanese War:

"This dying for your country is not my idea of living a long life."

That's right up there with one of my favorite Bertrand Russell quotes:

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."

Words for the non-committal.

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