From the Economist -- About Mugabe's Fall

There are two morals to draw from Mr Mugabe's long, ignominious career. The first is that bad policies, corruptly implemented, can wreck a country with alarming speed and go on wrecking it long after you would have thought there was nothing left.

The second moral is that, for all its disappointments, democracy remains the best antidote for bad rulers.

-- The Economist; Nov 18, 2017

Quote of the Day -- Francois de La Roçhefoucauld

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

-- Francois de La Roçhefoucauld

Quote of the Day -- Thomas Carlyle

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, as shallow as time.

-- Thomas Carlyle

Quote of the Day -- Paul Theroux

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

-- Paul Theroux

Quote of the Day -- George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

-- George Santayana

Quote of the Day -- Adam Smith

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

-- Adam Smith

Quote of the Day -- George Sand

One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness—simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

-- George Sand

Quote of the Day -- John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

-- John Maynard Keynes

Quote of the Day -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote of the Day -- Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

-- Oscar Wilde