After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to l...ive in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My love is as a fever, longing still For that which longer nurseth the disease;... Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, The uncertain sickly appetite to please. My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve, Desire his death, which physic did except. Past cure I am, now reason is past care, And frantic-mad with evermore unrest; My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are, At random from the truth vainly express'd; For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a human being, goddamn it, my life has value.' So I want ...you to get up now, I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As sure as time is--these mists will clear away. And the world--our world, will surely and unerringly see us as we are. Our only c...are need be the intrinsic worth of our contributions. If we represent the ignorance and poverty, the vice and destructiveness, the vagabondism and parasitism in the world's economy, no amount of philanthropy and benevolent sentiment can win for us esteem: and if we contribute a positive value in those things the world prizes, no amount of negrophobia can ultimately prevent its recognition. And our great "problem" after all is to be solved not by brooding over it, and orating about it, but by living into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have... a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure a...s it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I call it our collective inheritance of isolation. We inherit isolation in the bones of our lives. It is passed on to us as sure a...s the shape of our noses and the length of our legs. When we are young, we are taught to keep to ourselves for reasons we may not yet understand. As we grow up we become the "men who never cry" and the "women who never complain." We become another generation of people expected not to bother others with our problems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has po...wer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »