Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?
I am not going to make decisions based on barricades and blockades, nor am I going to make decisions based on the short-term volatility of the oil price.
There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.
If God resides anywhere. . . surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.
If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.
Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.
I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.
Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.
I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
