The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates--the inhabitants of marketing zones in the con...sumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,--simply standing, as they do, for the mystical..., ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth in... the fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver... and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here the sausage and garlic booth Sent unholy incense skyward;... There a quivering female-thing Gestured assignations, and lied To call it dancing;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Common sense should tell us that reading is the ultimate weapon--destroying ignorance, poverty and despair before they can destroy... us. A nation that doesn't read much doesn't know much. And a nation that doesn't know much is more likely to make poor choices in the home, the marketplace, the jury box and the voting booth...The challenge, therefore, is to convince future generations of children that carrying a book is more rewarding than carrying guns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies a man who was killed by lightning; He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.... He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble, But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is against Stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sens...e on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue ...is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognised that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self- government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's labour is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilise it, to prevent its wasteful ...squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilisation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »