No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.... Any man's death diminishes me ...because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the Catholic world, one can leave one's home and wander in various fields, but the tents of the Church are large, its compassio...n great, forgiveness easy. The loss of home in Protestant living is more difficult, yet not shattering, for each man is still a part of the entire community who are bound by an impersonal ethic of love. But in Jewish life, each home is an island unto itself, and the severing of the ties of family and tradition causes a tremor which can never be settled. The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are a...ll sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his facultie...s, or his possessions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Capt. York: Colonel, if you send out the regiment, Cochise'll think I've tricked him. Col. Thursday: Exactly, we have tricked... him. Tricked him into returning to American soil, and I intend to see that he stays here. Capt. York: Col. Thursday, I gave my word to Cochise. No man is going to make a liar out of me, sir. Col. Thursday: Your word to a breach-cladded savage, an illiterate, uncivilized murderer and treaty breaker. There's no question of honor, sir, between an American officer and Cochise. Capt. York: There is to me, sir.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most familiar sheet of water, viewed from a new hilltop, yields a novel and unexpected pleasure. When we have traveled a few m...iles, we do not recognize the profiles even of the hills which overlook our native village, and perhaps no man is quite familiar with the horizon as seen from the hill nearest to his house, and can recall its outline distinctly when in the valley. We do not commonly know, beyond a short distance, which way the hills range which take in our houses and farms in their sweep. As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere. It is an important epoch when a man who has always lived on the east side of a mountain, and seen it in the west, travels round and sees it in the east. Yet the universe is a sphere whose centre is wherever there is intelligence. The sun is not so central as a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that ...a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »