Portal:Scotland/Selected quote/Week 18, 2008

“ ... You talked of Scotland as a lost cause and that is not true. Scotland is an unwon cause. ... ”

— John Steinbeck, in a letter to Mrs John F. Kennedy.

“ ... We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. ... ”

— Ronald David Laing