“If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.”
“Visionaries of uncomfortable truths are mostly dismissed as fools.”
Unsourced
“The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions.”
Source: Between the World and Me (2015), p. 9.
Context: Resent the people trying to entrap your body and it can be destroyed.... The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions. And destruction is merely the superlative form of a dominion whose prerogatives include friskings, detainings, beatings, and humiliations. All of this is common to black people. And all of this is old for black people. No one is held responsible.
“A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.”
Latter Day Pamphlets, No. 6.
1850s
Source: Why Stock Markets Crash - Critical Events in Complex Systems (2003), Chapter 10, 2050: The End Of The Growth Era?, p. 390.
On the inspiration she received from reading, and the works of L. Frank Baum.
The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 21
Quoted in Collected Works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 517.
Society
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 39
