The charm of the Platonic mode of thought. . . consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any god there.
No one is born a Communist. . . in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.
We and you ought not to pull on the ends of a rope which you have tied the knots of war. Because the more the two of us pull, the tighter the knot will be tied. And then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you. I have participated in two wars and know that war ends when it has rolled through cities and villages, everywhere sowing death and destruction. For such is the logic of war. If people do not display wisdom, they will clash like blind moles and then mutual annihilation will commence.
America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.
If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.
If there be a mind that, not perceiving in the narratives we have compared the fingermarks of tradition, and hence the legendary character of these evangelical anecdotes, still leans to the historical interpretation, whether natural or supernatural; that mind must be alike ignorant of the true character both of legend and of history, of the natural and the supernatural.
I think President [Barack] Obama deeply underestimated the force of white supremacy in American life.
Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement.
No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.