Luke Harding quotes

  • Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.
    -- Luke Harding

    #Military #Writing #School

  • Paradoxically, in its quest to make Americans more secure, the NSA has made American communications less secure; it has undermined the safety of the entire internet.
    -- Luke Harding

    #Communication #Nsa #Safety

  • By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.
    -- Luke Harding

    #Two #Citizens #Demise

  • Strict shopping laws mean that most German shops close on Saturday afternoons, reopening only on Monday when everybody is back at work.
    -- Luke Harding

    #Monday #Mean #Law

  • The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

  • When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.

  • Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.

  • This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.

  • Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

  • I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

  • It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

  • I can write better than anyone who can write faster,

  • I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.