Source: 'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, 1, (1859), p. 12
“What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.”
“Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.”
As quoted in The Modern Handbook of Humor (1967) by Ralph Louis Woods
Variants:
A conservative is someone who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
“Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead,
Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”
Vergil in Averno (1987)
Talk at Brown University (April 2010) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBfHD2n13OA
Quotes 2010s, 2010
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: The first worship of idols was certainly fear of the things in the world, but, connected with this, fear of the necessity of the things, and, connected with this, fear of responsibility for the things. So tremendous did this responsibility appear that people did not even dare to impose it upon one single extra-human entity, for even the mediation of one being would not have sufficiently lightened human responsibility, intercourse with only one being would still have been all too deeply tainted with responsibility, and that is why each things was given the responsibility for itself, more indeed, these things were also given a degree of responsibility for man.
“Were there no men of vision,
all who are blind would be dead.”
Rumi Daylight (1990)
Source: The Black Company (1984), Chapter 3, “Raker” (p. 79)
Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 12 (p. 225)
