- Feed http://quotationsbook.com/ Quotations Book Search <![CDATA[If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3638/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3638/ <![CDATA[We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3641/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3641/ <![CDATA[The consistent anarchist should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and specialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat. Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a vanguard party, or a State bureaucracy.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2336/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2336/ <![CDATA[The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2148/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2148/ <![CDATA[America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2132/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/2132/ <![CDATA[I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1697/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1697/ <![CDATA[For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10242/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10242/ <![CDATA[Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1140/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1140/ <![CDATA[I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (III.i.49–61) The Merchant of Venice]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/49114/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/49114/ <![CDATA[The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. [Measure For Measure]]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15417/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15417/ <![CDATA[A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16286/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16286/ <![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19729/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/19729/ <![CDATA[Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22247/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22247/ <![CDATA[As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23456/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/23456/ <![CDATA[Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26628/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26628/ <![CDATA[Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1322/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1322/ <![CDATA[Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8207/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/8207/ <![CDATA[Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16742/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16742/ <![CDATA[To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33696/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33696/ <![CDATA[What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1002/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1002/ <![CDATA[In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1007/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/1007/ <![CDATA[The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all -- he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33701/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33701/ <![CDATA[I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33706/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33706/ <![CDATA[There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33711/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/33711/ <![CDATA[You’re required to fight the government since they are not obeying the laws of the constitution and it says in the constitution to fight them if they are not. ]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45862/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45862/ <![CDATA[The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27354/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27354/ <![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18921/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/18921/ <![CDATA[Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27282/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/27282/ <![CDATA[If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. ]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45252/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/45252/ <![CDATA[An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/540/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/540/ <![CDATA[Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22613/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/22613/ <![CDATA[Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10741/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10741/ <![CDATA[Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10275/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10275/ <![CDATA[So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12835/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12835/ <![CDATA[The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10343/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/10343/ <![CDATA[May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11188/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11188/ <![CDATA[I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13713/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/13713/ <![CDATA[No man is free who is not a master of himself.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15712/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15712/ <![CDATA[Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28549/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/28549/ <![CDATA[Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.]]> http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16736/ http://quotationsbook.com/quote/16736/