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“A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito”
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Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) Russian author
On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)
Context: It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead: there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in search, in questions, in torment.
The same is true of what we write: it walks and it talks, but it can be dead-alive or alive-alive. What is truly alive stops before nothing and ceaselessly seeks answers to absurd, "childish" questions. Let the answers be wrong, let the philosophy be mistaken — errors are more valuable than truths: truth is of the machine, error is alive; truth reassures, error disturbs. And if answers be impossible of attainment, all the better! Dealing with answered questions is the privilege of brains constructed like a cow's stomach, which, as we know, is built to digest cud.
“A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.”
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Un muerto en España está más vivo como muerto que en ningún sitio del mundo.
"Theory and Play of the Duende" from A Poet in New York (1940)
“You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.”
Steve Biko (1946–1977) anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
On Death
“You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.”
Garrett Fort (1900–1945) screenwriter
Prof. Von Helsing, defending himself against the charge of having murdered Count Dracula
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
“The live dead-man is dead as a producer and alive insofar as he consumes”
Jean Paul Sartre book Saint Genet
139
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Des MacHale, Wit, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City (KS), 2003, ISBN 978-0-7407-3330-7, page 197 https://books.google.ca/books?id=Dhlgd_Af1C4C&pg=PA197 <br class="br">Misattributed
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada
A man must say what he believes clearly, without dogma, and without guile. <br class="br">Statement during the 1968 election campaign, as quoted in party literature. "Pierre Elliott Trudeau for Canada", 1968 leaflet http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau-for-Canada-1968-Leaflet-Bill-Vander-Zalm-Liberal-Party-BC/322004097304?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131017132637%26meid%3D9020a37aa0b24dd68f1d3f5025b50b52%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D381542319016