The judges and lawyers ... consider, not whether the Fugitive Slave Law is right, but whether it is what they call constitutional.... Is virtue constitutional, or vice? Is equity constitutional, or inequity? In important moral and vital questions, like this, it is just as impertinent to ask whether a law is constitutional or not, as to ask whether it is profitable or not.... The question is, not whether you or your grandfather, seventy years ago, did not enter into an agreement to serve the devil, and that service is not accordingly now due; but whether you will not now, for once and at last, serve God,--in spite of your own past recreancy, or that of your ancestor,--by obeying that eternal and only just CONSTITUTION, which He, and not any Jefferson or Adams, has written in your being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again:... but winter's not forever, even snow melts; and if spring should spoil the game, what then?
For a number of years I ... believed that political bondage was the cause of many of the ills endured by those of my own sex; unti...l I discovered that the man without a job was about as badly off as the woman without a ballot. In fact, a little worse, for we can live without voting but we cannot live without eating. The real antagonism is not that which exists or is supposed to exist between the sexes; but between the capitalist class and the proletariat. Women are victims of class distinctions more than of sex distinctions ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now look, Winocki. There are two other men on this ship who washed up as pilots. But Martin's a bombardier and Hauser went in for ...navigation. And they're both good. You're a good gunner or you wouldn't have the rating you've got. We need you just like we need the whole gang. It takes all of us to make this ship function. Now get this into your head. We all belong to this airplane. Every man has got to rely on every other man to do the right thing at the right time. You played football, Winocki. You know how one man can gum up the works. You gotta play ball with us and play the game, or I'm gonna have to get rid of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We suddenly spied two moose standing just on the edge of the open part of the meadow which we had passed, not more than six or sev...en rods distant, looking around the alders at us. They made me think of great frightened rabbits, with their long ears and half-inquisitive, half-frightened looks; the true denizens of the forest (I saw at once), filling a vacuum which now first I discovered had not been filled for me,--moose-men, wood-eaters, the word is said to mean,--clad in a sort of Vermont gray, or homespun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you... take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan? First you're the outraged Madison Avenu...e man who claims he's been mistaken for someone else. Then you play the fugitive from justice, supposedly trying to clear his name of a crime he knows he didn't commit. And now you play the peevish lover stung by jealously and betrayal. It seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actors Studio.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.... Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »