Está uno harto de recordar –y ustedes aburridos de que yo lo haga– el viejo adagio de mi familia: “Nunca se debe intentar contentar a quienes nunca se van a dar por contentos”. Y sin embargo es algo que en España hay que sacar a colación continuamente, como si no darnos nunca por contentos fuera …
Dejamos atrás la calle del artista. Esperábamos algo tan acogedor y tan modesto, pero no ha dejado de asombrarnos que fuera tan acogedor y tan modesto. El impacto de respirar la humilde intimidad de alguien del que ya nadie niega su grandeza, ni artística ni humana. Pero en este caso no hay cursilería ni sentimentalismo …
Reforma de la ley electoral española. Un ciudadano, un voto. Han actuado 0 personas Nos faltan 0 firmas Actúa ahora Tu nombre Tu apellido Tu correo-e Cód. Postal Acepto las Norm. de Uso y Pol. de Priv. Firma la petición
Juror 8: You want to see this boy die because you personally want it, not because of the facts! You’re a sadist! El precepto de la duda razonable -fundamental para un veredicto de culpabilidad- ha quedado violado esta noche, cuando se quitó, de forma legal, la vida a un hombre sobre el que siete testigos, …
Bertrand Russell BBC Radio, London, 30 December 1954 Bertrand Russell’s claim to be remembered by his history rests on his work in mathematic and symbolic logic and his profound influence on philosophy. Yet he was also constantly involved in political affairs. Russell (1872-1970) was deprived of his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, during the First …
There is a small minority, for example, that believes that bad weather comes from bad thoughts. This is a rather mystical approach to the question, for it implies that thoughts can be translated directly into events in the physical world. According to them, when you think a dark or pessimistic thought, it produces a cloud …
The invention Of weights and measures Makes robbery easier. Signing contracts, setting seals, Makes robbery more sure. Teaching love and duty Provides a fitting language With which to prove that robbery Is really for the general good. A poor man must swing For stealing a belt buckle But if a rich man steals a whole …
A mature society is one that reserves its moral outrage for what really matters: poverty and preventable disease in the third world, arms sales, oppression, injustice. Bad language and sex might offend some, who certainly have a right to complain; but they do not have the right to censor. They do not have to watch …
Martin Rowson para GRANTA, 84. “Over There. How America Sees the World.” MAPPING AMERICA By the way, Justice: Fairness and the Big Society.
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. There one was a young person named Red Riding Hood who lived with her mother on the edge of a large wood. One day her mother asked her to take a basket of fresh fruit and mineral water to her grandmother’s house-not because this was womyn’s work, mind you, but because …