Thursday, May 31, 2012

Quote, unquote


Heng Chantha shot dead in recent land dispute
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment, inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”

- Thomas Jefferson

Experience of violence and cruelty start early on in life for some. (Photo: The Phnom Penh Post)
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
- George Bernard Shaw

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

And we still trust the UN to bring peace to the world?

Anonymous said...

maybe life is cheap in cambodia. cambodia has to be strong and firm on human rights and even animal rights as well, or the privileged people will abuse their power. sometimes, too, the unruly people will abuse their rights as well, especially when they curse, use derogatory terms like name-callings, disrespect of the rule of law, disobeying property authorities, etc, etc, you know. anyhow, cambodia should always strengthen the rule of law in the country, so no more repeat of the stupid, primitive KR style of gov't is allowed again, really. anyway, god bless my country cambodia and all our beautiful khmer people and citizens of cambodia.

Anonymous said...

Is that not child abuse?

Anonymous said...

L'homme est victime de soi-même