...you decided to have a look at my Collection of Quotes, here they are, although still in no particular order, anyway:
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
--Krishnamurti
Whoever places his hand on me to govern me without my consent is an usurper and a tyrant. I declare him my
enemy.
--Pierre Joseph Proudhon
You tell me what to eat, what to think, what to say. And when I show a glimmer of independent thought you strap me down, inject me with drugs and call it a treatment! I may be surrounded by insanity, but I am not insane. I didn't kill that man, and nothing you can say or do will prove that I did. And that's what's driving you crazy.
--Unknown
Laws are not a product of the wisdom of our ancestors: they are the product of their passions, their timidity, their jealousies and their ambition. The remedy they offer is worse than the evils they pretend to cure. If and only if all laws and courts were abolished, and the decisions in the arising contests were left to reasonable men chosen for that purpose, real justice would gradually be evolved.
--Godwin
Just suppose that it is not true that there is no possible alternative. Just suppose that impunity and aggression are not the only future. Just suppose that it is possible that the rickety border which separates war from peace will not get even thinner. Just suppose that some crazies and romantics think that another world and another life are possible. Just suppose the worst, that is to say, that these crazies think that there are other crazies that think like them. Just suppose the inadmissable, that is to say, that these and those crazies want to meet each other. Just suppose that they suppose that out of this meeting of craziness some reason might release itself...
--Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos EZLN, March, 1996
Every time a State wants to declare war upon another State, it starts off by launching a manifesto addressed not only to its own subjects but to the whole world. In this manifesto it declares that right and justice are on its side, and it endeavors to prove that it is actuated only by love of peace and humanity and that, imbued with generous and peaceful sentiments, it suffered for a long time in silence until the mounting iniquity of its enemy forced it to bare its sword. At the same time it vows that, disdainful of all material conquest and not seeking any increase in territory, it will put and end to this war as soon as justice is reestablished. And its antagonist answers with a similar manifesto, in which naturally right, justice, humanity, and all the generous sentiments are to be found respectively on its side.
--Michail Bakunin
Liberty, morality, and the humane dignity of man consist precisely in that man does good not because he is ordered to do so, but because he conceives it, wants it, and loves it.
--Michail Bakunin
Freedom is the precondition for acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved.
--Immanuel Kant
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
--George Orwell
Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in.
--Willis Harman
The task of the human-hearted man is to procure benefits for the world and to eliminate its calamities. Now among all the current calamities of the world, which are the greatest? I say that attacks on small states by large ones, disturbances of small houses by large ones, oppression of the weak by the strong, misuse of the few by the many, deception of the simple by the cunning, and disdain toward the humble by the honored: these are the misfortunes of the world.
--Mo Tzu, China, 479-381 BCE
All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.
--Schopenhauer
Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then you will find that money cannot be eaten.
--Cree Indian Prophecy
....in the United States, alone among the great nations of history, there is a right way to think and a wrong way to think in everything...in the most trivial matters of everyday life.
--H. L. Mencken
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
-- George Bernard Shaw
I believe it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than to be ignorant.
--H.L. Mencken
Business knows no pity, and cares for justice only when justice is seen to be better policy. If it had power to control the elements, it would grasp in its iron clutches the waters, sunshine and air and resell them by measure, and at exorbitant prices to the millions of famished men, women and children.
--W. A. Duncan in the Cherokee Advocate, 1892
The outcome of today's struggles does not matter. It does not matter in the final count that one or two movements were temporarily defeated because what is definite is the decision to struggle which matures every day, the consciousness of the need for revolutionary change, and the certainty that it is possible.
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Fighting crime by building more jails is like fighting cancer by building more cemeteries.
-- Paul Kelly, New Party representative (Little Rock, AR)
If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains. Every wheel in the creation every mine and every mill; fleets and armies of the nation, will at their command stand still.
--Joe Hill
I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and justice for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, other-centered men can build up.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure and to another all the burdens of work condemns both classes to spiritual sterility.
--Lewis Mumford
1. Let Jesus save you.
2. Come out of your blanket, cut your hair, and dress like a white man.
3. Have a Christian family with one wife for life only.
4. Live in a house like your white brother. Work hard and wash often.
5. Learn the value of a hard-earned dollar. Do not waste your money on giveaways. Be punctual.
6. Believe that property and wealth are signs of divine approval.
7. Keep away from saloons and strong spirits.
8. Speak the language of your white brother. Send your children to school to do likewise.
9. Go to church often and regularly.
10. Do not go to Indian dances or to the medicine men.
-- from a wall poster, given to a Lakota Sioux student in a Christian missionary boarding school. Quoted in "Lakota Woman," by Mary Crow Dog (Harper, 1991)
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
--Bertolt Brecht
Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are routinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.
--E.L. Doctorow
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't.
--John Ralston Saul
We who have a Voice must be a Voice for the Voiceless!
--Oscar Romero, 1980
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.
--Noam Chomsky
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
--Martin Buber
When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist or a biologist who is asked if he is a 'Newtonian' or if he is a 'Pasteurian'.
--Ernesto "Che" Guevera
In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever steps beyond them. Not that he is exposed to the terrors of an auto-da-fe, but he is tormented by the slights and persecutions of daily obloquy. His political career is closed forever, since he has offended the only authority which is able to promote his success.
--Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
--Pierre Joseph Proudhon quoted in The Match!
Hope is the basic ingredient of all vitality.
--Erik Erikson
As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery.
--Ben Harper
Can a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, such firm persuasions have moved mountains.
--William Blake
The familiar notion of planning is that done by experts, with scientific knowledge. We have seen the results of that rational planning: tower blocks, food additives, valium--the list of horrors is endless.
--Sheila Rowbotham
I see in the near future a crises approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country....corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic in destroyed
--Abraham Lincoln Nov. 21, 1864
They will do whatever we let them get away with.
-- Joseph Heller
Right is only in question between equals, and while the strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must.
--Thucydides
One cannot say that all conservatives are stupid people, one can say that most stupid people are conservative.
-- John Stewart Mill
If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.
-- John Ralston Saul The Unconscious Civilization
The lack of objectivity, as far as foreign nations are concerned, is notorious. From one day to another, another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve. Indeed, if one examines the relationship between nations, as well as between individuals, one comes to the conclusion that objectivity is the exception, and a greater or lesser degree of narcissistic distortion is the rule.
--Eric Fromm
Buying and selling is essentially anti-social.
--Edward Bellamy
There is only a single categorical imperative and it is this: Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
--Immanuel Kant
There is no supernatural, Priest. There is only the darkness where your ability to mesure the natural ends.
--Roger Taylor, Whistler
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
--Margaret Mead
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
--William Blake
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That is the essence of inhumanity.
--George Bernard Shaw
Let me say, with the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love.… Above all, always be capable of feeling any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world.
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is -- people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful.
--Kim Stanley Robinson
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made.
--Groucho Marx
Once upon a time there was a magnet, and in its close neighborhood lived some steel filings. One day two or three filings felt a sudden desire to go and visit the magnet, and they began to talk of what a pleasant thing it would be to do. Other filings nearby overheard their conversation, and they, too, became infected with the same desire. Still others joined them, till at last all the filings began to discuss the matter, and more and more their vague desire grew into an impulse. "Why not go today?" said some of them; but others were of the opinion that it would be better to wait until tomorrow. Meanwhile, without their having noticed it, they had been involuntarily moving nearer to the magnet, which lay there quite still, apparently taking no heed of them. And so they went on discussing, all the time insensibly drawing nearer to their neighbor; and the more they talked, the more they felt the impulse growing stronger, till the more impatient ones declared that they would go that day, whatever the rest did. Some were heard to say that it was their duty to visit the magnet, and that they ought to have gone long ago. And, while they talked, they moved always nearer and nearer, without realizing they had moved. Then, at last, the impatient ones prevailed, and, with one irresistible impulse, the whole body cried out, "There is no use waiting. We will go today. We will go now. We will go at once." And then in one unanimous mass they swept along, and in another moment were clinging fast to the magnet on every side. Then the magnet smiled-for the steel filings had no doubt at all but that they were paying that visit on their own free will.
--Oscar Wilde
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings.
--John Stuart Mill
Ich bin zutiefst �berzeugt, dass man in f�nfzig oder hundert Jahren unsere lebenslangen Zuchthausstrafen mit demselben Staunen und Schauder betrachten wird, den wir heute empfinden, wenn wir uns vergegenw�rtigen, wie man fr�her Nasen durchl�cherte oder einen Finder an der linken Hand abhackte.
--Anton Tschechow
Wer am Tag tr�umt, wird sich vieler Dinge bewusst, die dem entgehen, der nur in der Nacht tr�umt.
--Edgar Allan Poe
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
--Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
But this didn't need to ape something as human and adulterated as mere currency.
--Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Paradise on my right. Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.
--Frank Herbert, Dune
...THEY DON'T REALLY BELIEVE. THEY PRETEND TO BELIEVE, JUST IN CASE.
--Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
Dass das Leben des Menschen nur ein Traum sei, ist manchem schon so vorgekommen und auch mit mir zieht dieses Gef�hl immer herum. Wenn ich die Einschr�nkungen ansehe, in welcher die t�tigen und forschenden Kr�fte des Menschen eingesperrt sind; wenn ich sehe, wie alle Wirksamkeit dahinaus l�uft, sich die Befriedigung von Bed�rfnissen zu verschaffen, die wieder keinen Zweck haben, als unsere arme Existenz zu verl�ngern, und dann, dass alle Beruhigung �ber gewisse Punkte des Nachforschens nur eine tr�umende Resignation ist, da man sich die W�nde, zwischen denen man gefangen sitzt, mit bunten Gestalten und lichten Aussichten bemalt - Das alles, Wilhelm, macht mich stumm. Ich kehre in mich selbst zur�ck, und finde eine Welt! Wieder mehr in Ahnung und dunkler Begier , als in Darstellung und lebendiger Kraft. Und da schwimmt alles vor meinen Sinnen und ich l�chle dann so tr�umend weiter in die Welt.
--Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther
As every student of exploration knows, the prize goes not to the explorer who first sets foot upon the virgin soil but to the one who gets that foot home first. If it is still attached to his leg, this is a bonus.
--Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Die Technik ist lernbar. Was man nicht lernen kann, sind die Geschichten; sie m�ssen von innen heraus kommen. Wenn ich etwas schreibe, erlebe ich mich gleichzeitig als Leser, und ich muss weiterschreiben, um zu erfahren, wie es weitergeht.
--Pedro Almod�var
Ein Maler, dem die H�nde fehlen und der durch Gesang das ihm vorschwebende Bild ausdr�cken wollte, wird immer noch mehr bei dieser Vertauschung der Sph�ren verraten, als die empirische Welt vom Wesen der Dinge verr�t.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Die Freiheit des Menschen liegt nicht darin, dass er tun kann, was er will, sondern dass er nicht tun muss, was er nicht will.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Let us not flatter ourselves for our human victories over nature. For every such victory, it takes its revenge on us. … At every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature. But that we with flesh, blood and brain belong to nature and exist in its midst.
--Frederick Engels, Dialectics of Nature
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass.
--August Strindberg, 1884
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
--H.L. Mencken
I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
--Stephen Jay Gould
To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn $100 million into $110 million is inevitable
--Edgar Bronfman
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau
Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
--Frank Herbert, Dune
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
--Frank Herbert, Dune
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
--Frank Herbert, Dune
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
--Frank Herbert, Dune
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
--Frank Herbert, Dune
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
--H.L. Mencken
Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning -- definitely the sensation of belonging there.
--E.B. White
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
--Charles Dickens
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
--Gilbert Chesterton
When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
--Jean-Paul Sartre
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
--Thich Nhat Hanh
If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children.
--Mahatma Gandhi
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.
--Martin Luther King
For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work for it.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Like all great ideas, anarchism is pretty simple when you get down to it -- human beings are at their best when they are living free of authority, deciding things among themselves rather than being ordered about.
--Clifford Harper
Until now all human history has been only a perpetual and bloody immolation of millions of poor human beings in honour of some pitiless abstraction -- God, country, power of state, national honour, historical rights, judicial rights, political liberty, public welfare.
--Michail Bakunin
Since it was thought that government was necessary and that without government there could only be disorder and confusion, it was natural and logical that anarchy, which means absence of government, should sound like absence of order.
--Errico Malatesta
The most noble, pure and true love of mankind is the love of oneself. I want to be free! I hope to be happy! I want to appreciate all the beauties of the world. But my freedom is secured only when all other people around me are free. I can only be happy when all other people around me are happy. I can only be joyful when all the people I see and meet look at the world with joy-filled eyes. And only then can I eat my fill with pure enjoyment when I have the secure knowledge that other people, too, can eat their fill as I do. And for that reason it is a question of my own contentment, only of my own self, when I rebel against every danger which threatens my freedom and my happiness. . .
--Ret Marut
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinisation all around us than even such significant moronising mechanisms as television and education. People who are regimented all their lives, handed to work from school and bracketed by the family in the beginning and the nursing home in the end, are habituated to hierarchy and psychologically enslaved. Their aptitude for autonomy is so atrophied that their fear of freedom is among their few rationally grounded phobias. Their obedience training at work carries over into the families they start, thus reproducing the system in more ways than one, and into politics, culture and everything else. Once you drain the vitality from people at work, they'll likely submit to hierarchy and expertise in everything. They're used to it.
--Bob Black
The great are great only because we are on our knees.
--Max Stirner
We do not want the death of men but the abolition of positions and things.
--Michail Bakunin
I decide whether it is the right thing for me; there is no right outside me.
--Max Stirner
In common with founders of Socialism, Anarchists demand the abolition of all economic monopolies and the common ownership of the soil and all other means of production, the use of which must be available to all without distinction. . . .the Anarchists represent the viewpoint that the war against capitalism must be at the same time a war against all institutions of political power, for in history economic exploitation has always gone hand in hand with political and social oppression. The exploitation of man by man and the domination of man over man are inseparable, and each is the condition of the other.
--Rudolf Rocker
Her development, her freedom, her independence, must come from and through herself. First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity. Second, by refusing the right of anyone over her body; by refusing to bear children, unless she wants them, by refusing to be a servant to God, the State, society, the husband, the family, etc., by making her life simpler, but deeper and richer. That is, by trying to learn the meaning and substance of life in all its complexities; by freeing herself from the fear of public opinion and public condemnation.
--Emma Goldman
If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labour movement. . . the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil in misery and want, expect salvation -- if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread on a spark, but there and there, behind you -- and in front of you, and everywhere, flames blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.
--Albert Spies, one of the Haymarket Martyrs
The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties; almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt. Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workman. Every shop and cafe had an inscription saying that it had been collectivised; even the bootblacks had been collectivised and their boxes painted red and black. Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said 'Se�or' or 'Don' or even 'Usted'; everyone called everyone else 'Comrade' or 'Thou', and said 'Salud!' instead of 'Buenos dias'. . . Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom. Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.
--George Orwell
The nursery training is very like the kennel training. The whipped child, like the whipped puppy, grows into an obedient, inferior adult. And as we train our dogs to suit our own purposes, so we train our children. In that kennel, the nursery, the human dogs must be clean; they must feed when we think it convenient for them to feed. I saw a hundred thousand obedient, fawning dogs wag their tails in the Templehof, Berlin, when in 1935, the great trainer Hitler whistled his commands.
--A.S. Neill
Nicht darauf kommt es an, da� die Macht in dieser oder jener Hand sich befinde: die Macht selbst mu� vermindert werden, in welcher Hand sie sich auch befinde. Aber noch kein Herrscher hat die Macht, die er besa�, und wenn er sie auch noch so edel gebrauchte, freiwillig schw�chen lassen. Die Herrschaft kann nur beschr�nkt werden, wenn sie herrenlos - Freiheit geht nur aus Anarchie hervor. Von dieser Notwendigkeit der Revolution d�rfen wir das Gesicht nicht abwenden, weil sie so traurig ist. Wir m�ssen als M�nner der Gefahr fest ins Auge blicken und d�rfen nicht zittern vor dem Messer des Wundarztes. Freiheit geht nur aus Anarchie hervor - das ist unsere Meinung, so haben wir die Lehren der Geschichte verstanden.
--Ludwig B�rne
Die Anarchie, auf welche sich die beiden Erscheinungen, Atheismus und Kommunismus, zur�ckf�hren lassen, die Negation aller Herrschaft, im geistigen wie im sozialen Leben, erscheint zun�chst als schlechthinige Vernichtung aller Bestimmung, mithin aller Wirklichkeit. Aber es ist in der Tat nur das �u�erliche Bestimmtwerden, die Herrschaft des einen �ber den anderen, was die Anarchie aufhebt. Die Selbstbestimmung wird hier so wenig negiert, da� vielmehr deren Negation (die durch das Bestimmtwerden von au�en gesetzt) wieder aufgehoben wird. Die durch den Geist geschaffene Anarchie ist nur eine Negation der Beschr�nktheit, nicht der Freiheit. Nicht die Schranken, welche der Geist sich selbst setzt, bilden den Inhalt seiner freien T�tigkeit - also dieses Sichsetzen, Sichbestimmen oder Sichbeschr�nken ist es nicht, was vom freien Geist negiert werden kann, sondern das Beschr�nktwerden von au�en.
--Moses Hess
For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
--H.L. Mencken
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom & yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder & lightning. That struggle might be a moral one; it might be a physical one; it might be both moral & physical, but it must be struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did & never will. People might not get all that they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
--Frederick Douglass
He is standing. And he is standing as absolutely
and
definitely as if he were sitting.
--Witold Gombrowicz
...we gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
--Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Roget
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