To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss.... So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,... A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets; As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. And even the like precurse of feared events, As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara ... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a... jet runway at Kennedy airport.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We had won. Pimps got out of their polished cars and walked the streets of San Francisco only a little uneasy at the unusual exerc...ise. Gamblers, ignoring their sensitive fingers, shook hands with shoeshine boys.... Beauticians spoke to the shipyard workers, who in turn spoke to the easy ladies.... I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year. Something like a festival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light. Freedom from... labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of thos...e other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »