Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.
The storm that bends the birch trees Is held to be violent But how about the storm That bends the backs of the roadworkers?
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.
Would it not be simpler If the Government Dissolved the people And elected another?
Love is the wish to give, not to receive.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it. ' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.
Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.
Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.