too weird to live, too rare to die
Sometimes you have to pick the Gun up to put the Gun down
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah, I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression. Plus, of course, friendship
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.
You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker
...perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather mortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the intergrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Who would you be but who you are?
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
It's not just that people sacrifice their love relationships, and the care of their children, to pursue their careers. Something like this has perhaps always existed. The point is that today many people feel called to do this, feel they ought to do this, feel their lives would be somehow wasted or unfulfilled if they didn't do it.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Herder put forward the idea that each of us has an original way of being human. Each person has his or her own
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
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