I'the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic... Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is w...eak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its... fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had brought a large map representing the sea, Without the least vestige of land:... And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be A map they could all understand. "What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?" So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply "They are merely conventional signs! Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes! But we've got our brave Captain to thank" (So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best-- A perfect and absolute blank!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Bok is giving the bird sanctuary as a tract of land at this place. He is dedicating it as a bird sanctuary and putting up thes...e bells to interest the birds in music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by t...he census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in histo...ry, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They had their fortunes to make, everything to gain and nothing to lose. They were schooled in and anxious for debates; forcible i...n argument; reckless and brilliant. For them it was but a short and natural step from swaying juries in courtroom battles over the ownership of land to swaying constituents in contests for office. For the lawyer, oratory was the escalator that could lift a political candidate to higher ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »