What did Iain Banks mean by: Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite - Iain Banks Author · Scotland Copy
+ I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Salvation, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Capacity, Gratitude, Limits, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Reality, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Achieve, Exercise, Skills, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films. Feraz Zeid, July 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Iain Banks, Book, Film, Usual, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ One should never regret one’s excesses, only one’s failures of nerve. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Excess, Nerves, Regret, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
+ Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iain Banks, Scholar, 0 - Iain Banks Author · Scotland
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit. - Jean-Claude Juncker Politician · Luxembourg
Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. - Jeff Goodell
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. - Jeff Greenfield Journalist · USA
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. - Jefferson Davis Politician · USA
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. - Jefferson Davis Politician · USA