Gore Vidal on civil liberties (1970) |
Along with exhortation and warning, it might be good for our citizens to recall (or learn for the first time) that the United States was the creation of men who believed that each person has the right...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:26:00 GMT |
Charles Bukowski on Johnny Cash singing to the boys at Folsom Prison |
it seems to me that Johnny is giving them a little shit just like I suspect Bob Hope does to the boys at Viet during Xmas, but I have this kind of mind. the boys holler, they ...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:17:00 GMT |
Exerpt from Civil Disobedience (1849) - Henry David Thoreau |
...the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was...
Posted by on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:16:00 GMT |
Excerpt from The Soul of Man Under Socialism - Oscar Wilde |
We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:30:00 GMT |
Excerpt from Civil Disobedience (1849) - Henry David Thoreau |
How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a sing...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:56:00 GMT |
Quote from Messiah (1954) - Gore Vidal |
"...I must warn you...that I am not a believer. And though I'm sure that the revelations of other men must be a source of infinite satisfaction to them individually, I shouldn't for one second be...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:33:00 GMT |
Excerpt from Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969) - Charles Bukowski |
revolution sounds very romantic, you know. but it ain't. it's blood and guts and madness; it's little kids killed who get in the way, it's little kids who don't understand wha...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:44:00 GMT |
Excerpt from the novel Two Sisters (1970)- Gore Vidal |
[L]iterature...has no relevance to the young who were brought up on television and movies, and though they are doubtless happier for the whole experience, they are also quite unable to comprehend ...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:00:00 GMT |
The Virtue of Pride - Ayn Rand (from the book "The Virtue of Selfishness") |
The virtue of Pride is the recognition of the fact "that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life, so he must acquire the values of character ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:34:00 GMT |
