Michael Dobson |
February 9
Social
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
Фёдор Достое́вский (Fyodor Dostoevsky) (portrait by Vasily Perov)
died February 9, 1881
Michael Dobson |
October 4
Social
"Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise."
Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US President
born October 4, 1822
Michael Dobson |
October 5
Social
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."
Václav Havel, Czech playwright and politician
born October 5, 1936
Michael Dobson |
October 6
Social
"Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet
died October 6, 1892
Michael Dobson |
October 7
Social
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
Niels Bohr, physicist
born October 7, 1885