The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered... by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born,... With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn. Their faith, my tears, the world deride-- I come to shed them at their side.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carp...ets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distast...es, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies th...e power of the spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you feed a thousand people you are a nice man with suspicious motives. If you kill a thousand you are a hero. Continue to get t...hem killed by the thousands and you are a great conqueror than which nothing on earth is greater. Oppress them and you are a great ruler. Rob them by law and they are proud and happy if you let them glimpse you occasionally surrounded by the riches that you have trampled out of their hides. You are truly divine if you meet their weakness with the sword to slay and the dogs to tear. The only time you run great risk is when you serve them. The most repulsive thing to all men is gratitude. Men give up property, freedom and even life before they will have the obligation laid on them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold... like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly swept by rain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, a...nd illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.... There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about... it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed--and I thought it my duty to do so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »