Great Throughts Treasury

"Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"I am not a Labor Leader; I do not want you to follow me or anyone else; if you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of this capitalist wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, someone else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition; as it is now the capitalists use your heads and your hands." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"The elimination of rent, interest, profit and the production of wealth to satisfy the wants of all the people. That is the demand." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"Without delay I began work, without hesitation and all of a fever." -

"Very good to be rich, very good to be strong, but even better to be loved ones a lot of friends." - Euripedes NULL

"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance.. poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"This is not a debate about abortion. This is about a fundamental right to make choices about our sexuality -- without the encroachment of a president, the Supreme Court, and certainly without the encroachment of politicians!" - Faye Wattleton

"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds." - Felix Adler

"It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind." - Felix Adler

"We propose to entirely exclude prayer and every form of ritual. Thus shall we avoid even the appearance of interfering with those to whom prayer and ritual, as a mode of expressing religious sentiment, are dear. And on the other hand we shall be just to those who have ceased to regard them as satisfactory and dispensed with them in their own persons." - Felix Adler

"Who troubles others has no rest himself." -

"And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on." -

"Death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief." -

"Deserves it I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." -