“There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.”
Fireside Travels, At Sea (1864)
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Maxims
Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 95, note 28
Book 3, Chapter 7 “Project NFB” (p. 135)
Oswald Bastable, The Warlord of the Air (1971)
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
“How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?”
"Message from Bertrand Russell to the International Conference of Parlimentarians in Cairo, February 1970," reprinted in The New York Times (23 February 1970)
1960s
Context: The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was "given" by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? A permanent just settlement of the refugees in their homeland is an essential ingredient of any genuine settlement in the Middle East.
“I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.”
"The Harlem Ghetto" in Commentary (February 1948); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Source: The Blood of Olympus