“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!”
Lear, Act I, scene iv.
Source: King Lear (1605–6)
Source: VALIS (1981)
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!”
Lear, Act I, scene iv.
Source: King Lear (1605–6)
Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches
"The Individual, Society and the State" (1940) http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1940/individual.htm <br class="br">Context: Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.
“The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.”
Terry Eagleton (1943) British writer, academic and educator
Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 70
“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874) Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: The tables of criminality for different ages, given in my published treatise, merit at least as much faith as the tables of mortality, and verify themselves within perhaps even narrower limits; so that crime pursues its path with even more constancy than death.... it is still betwixt the ages of twenty-one and twenty-five, that, all things being equal, the greatest number of persons are to be found in that position [of a criminal].
Jacques Ellul book Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes
Vintage, p. 41
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)