Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or th...ey behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail a...nd to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believe...s itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it before ... why do we think we can succeed now?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold,... and that's none of the law's business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he'd better have the rooms available.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified... here, & I am not enough in sympathy with our "gros public" to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most déplacé & useless class on earth!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You ever Have wished the sleeping of this business, never desired... It to be stirred, but oft have hindered, oft The passages made toward it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bri...ght and joyous light of the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on--have found that none of these finally satis...fy, or permanently wear--what remains? Nature remains.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One story recounts that a Tennessean, after a single day in the then almost impenetrable tangle of cypress, briars, and canebreaks..., pestered by myriads of mosquitoes, and bogged in the heavy gumbo mud, declared: "Arkansas is not part of the world for which Jesus Christ died--I want none of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »