Die bevormundete Minderheit

Hilal Sezgin kommentiert die Neubesetzung der Deutschen Islamkonferenz für QANTARA.DE und findet: „Es liegt etwas zutiefst Bevormundendes, sogar Undemokratisches in der Art der Besetzungspolitik der Deutschen Islamkonferenz. Das Ministerium berät, hinter verschlossenen Türen. Die Muslime warten ab, wer sie vertritt.“

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr (dän. Physiker, 1885-1962) hat sicherlich Recht. Wir können keine verlässlichen Vorhersagen leisten, Ihnen allen aber das Beste für das neue Jahr wünschen.

For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game.

Grantland Rice („Alumunus Football,“ Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941))

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

Bruce Cockburn (Musiker)

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery (franz. Autor und Poet, 1871-1945)

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Groucho Marx (US comedian, Marx Brothers (1890 – 1977)

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

US Regisseur, Schaupieler, Comedian (1935 – )

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking (Britischer Kosmologe Physiker, 1942 – )

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen (1935-)