
Not Always So (page 95)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)
Source: Blood of the Fold
Not Always So (page 95)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)
“The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.”
"The Wise Years", The Moon Endureth (1912)
“Master and slave wear the yoke together. Anarchy is the only true freedom.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 1, “Areoformation” (p. 35)
“If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”
Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 79
"The Limits of Endurance"
The Life of Birds (1998)
“Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.”
"Flatlander" (1967), first published in If (March 1967)
Main Street and Other Poems (1917), The Robe of Christ
Context: Oh, he can be the forest,
And he can be the sun,
Or a buttercup, or an hour of rest
When the weary day is done.
I saw him through a thousand veils,
And has not this sufficed?
Now, must I look on the Devil robed
In the radiant Robe of Christ?
Address to the United Nations (1963)
Context: On the question of racial discrimination, the Addis Ababa Conference taught, to those who will learn, this further lesson:
That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned:
That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation;
That until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes;
That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race;
That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained;
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed;
Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will;
Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven;
Until that day, the African continent will not know peace.