John Brown and Giuseppe Garibaldi were contemporaries not solely in the matter of time; their endeavors as liberators link their n...ames where other likeness is absent; and the peaks of their careers were reached almost simultaneously: the Harper's Ferry Raid occurred in 1859, the raid on Sicily in the following year. Both events, however differing in character, were equally quixotic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there is something quixotic in me about money, something meek and guilty. I want it and like it. But I cannot imagine insistin...g on it, pressing it out of people. I always vaguely feel: why should I have money when other people have it not? It is like taking the biggest piece of cake. And I can never feel that I have earned it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological a...gents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »