Unsourced
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 14
“What about you?"
"Not a clue. I keep wishing I could bake a cake or something.”
Source: Catching Fire
“Frosting
Freedom
Is just frosting
On somebody else's
Cake--
And so must be
Till we
Learn how to
Bake.”
Source: The Panther and the Lash
“[A] great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminished at the Edges.”
"Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One"; The Public Advertiser (September 11, 1773).
1770s
The Moscoviad
Source: The Moscoviad. Yuri Andrukhovych. Spuyten Duyvil, New York City. ISBN1933132523, p. 175
“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”
Source: Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), Ch. 11 : Money Et Cetera, p. 100
Context: The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
