Great Throughts Treasury

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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.

Good | Human race | Nature | Race | Reason | Worth |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

News | Time | Work |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

The united vote of those who toil and have not will vanquish those who have and toil not, and solve forever the problems of democracy.

Courage | Injustice | Injustice | Intelligence | Justice | Men | Power | Right | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Wrong |

Eugene McCarthy, fully Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

Aid | Good | Men | Time |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

So far as I am concerned, it does not matter what others may say, or think, or do, as long as I am sure that I am right with myself and the cause. There are so many who seek refuge in the popular side of a great question. As a Socialist, I have long since learned how to stand alone.

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

Of course, Socialism is violently denounced by the capitalist press and by all the brood of subsidized contributors to magazine literature, but this only confirms the view that the advance of Socialism is very properly recognized by the capitalist class as the one cloud upon the horizon which portends an end to the system in which they have waxed fat, insolent and despotic through the exploitation of their countless wage-working slaves.

Business | Care | Earth | Knowing | Men | Question | Society | System | Society | Business | Old |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

They are continually talking about your patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches. And now among other things they are urging you to "cultivate" war gardens, while at the same time a government war report just issued shows that practically 52 percent of the arable, tillable soil is held out of use by the landlords, speculators and profiteers. They themselves do not cultivate the soil. Nor do they allow others to cultivate it. They keep it idle to enrich themselves, to pocket the millions of dollars of unearned increment.

Age | Evidence | Men | Opposition | Rule | Treason | Wonder |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Men |

Euripedes NULL

Who knows that 'tis not life which we call death, and death our life on earth?

Death | Life | Life | Men |

Eustace Budgell

In short, a private education seems the most natural method for the forming of a virtuous man; a public education for making a man of business. The first would furnish out a good subject for PlatoÂ’s republic, the latter a member for a community overrun with artifice and corruption.

Education | Means | Men | Nothing | Order | Reason | Service | Temper | Think |

Eugenio Montale

You do not remember the house of the customs officers from the upward overhanging the cliff: desolate awaits you from the night when entered it the swarm of your thoughts restless and stopped there.

Men | Position | Power | Victim |

Euripedes NULL

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

Despair | Men |

Euripedes NULL

It is behind the evil sought would only cast evil.

Better | Good |

Eugenio Montale

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Capacity | Extreme | Fault | Philosophy | Work | Fault | Think |

Eugenio Montale

After the invention of printing, poetry becomes vertical, does not fill the white space completely, it is rich in new paragraphs and repetitions.

Eugenio Montale

Back to event the sun and the widespread voices, not the usual noises door.

Culture | Men | Friends |

Euripedes NULL

Come, God -- Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus -- burst into life, burst into being, be a mighty bull, a hundred-headed snake, a fire-breathing lion. Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus!

Men | Rule |

Euripedes NULL

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Hope | Men |

Eustace Budgell

Those who have searched into human nature observe that nothing so much shows the nobleness of the soul, as that its felicity consists in action. Every man has such an active principle in him that he will find out something to employ himself upon, in whatever place or state of life he is posted.

Conversation | Discretion | Giving | Good | Love | Man | Nothing | Sense |