Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before ...a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I ... don't doubt for a moment that the revolution will result in a nonracial society. I have just come from being a patient in Gr...oote Schuur Hospital where they now have integrated wards. For the first time in my life, I have seen it working. The patients were mixed, the staff was mixed, and the medical officers were mixed; it was totally integrated. It was beautiful. White and black together. And it works. To me that is terribly exciting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,... Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist ...is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, Adam, it's my guess that the old-fashioned political campaign in a few years will be as extinct as the dodo. It'll be all TV... and radio, it'll all be streamlined and nice and easy. Oh mind you, I use the TV and the radio sometimes, but I also get out into the wards. I speak in arenas, armories, street corners--anywhere I can gather a crowd. I even kiss babies. But that's the way I've always done it, and I must say it's usually paid off. But there's no use kidding myself about it. It's on its way out, just as I am. Yes, yes, this is my last campaign, Adam, the last hurrah.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In an age of abstract experience, fornication Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria,... And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients; Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule, Are precious.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »