blog (August, 2008)
even virtue in others
In this world men become envious of others, just because the others are good, while they themselves are not so good, and they cannot bear this. It is strange indeed that men should not suffer even virtue in others.
-- Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari's translation of the Mahabharata
unquestioning
When authorities say we should not politicize something, they mean that the politics of the status quo should not be questioned.
-- Rebecca Solnit, Looking Away From Beauty: What remains hidden behind the nationalism of the Olympic Games (Orion Magazine)
Found via Toban Black, Athletes and nation-states at the Olympics