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Quotables

Above: attributed to Australian Aboriginal activist Lila Watson “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) “Hell is truth seen … Continue reading

30 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Bumper sticker politics

From the trite to the terrific, the funny to the furious, here are some selected slogan quotes and one-liner witticisms. This selection invariably reflects my own political and philosophic positioning … Continue reading

24 March, 2007 · 11 Comments

Schopenhauer on genius and truth

Amongst my favourite quotes: “The exceptional man is like an archer who can strike a target others cannot, the genius is the one who can strike a target others cannot … Continue reading

7 March, 2007 · 9 Comments

Gandhi: In the midst of darkness

For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that … Continue reading

3 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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