The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks (1949)
Source: Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007), p. 25
“Your nose hair… which is grey… is in my eye.”
On how to hurt the ones you really love.
Like, Totally (2006)
“Canadian society' or the 'Canadian nation' cannot decide anything, because no one is in charge.”
Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 1, Rational Choice, p. 5
“Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“I have constantly had in mind the average man intelligently interested in political affairs.”
Source: Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915), p.x
Context: While I have given references which will enable historical students to verify my statements and follow them further, I have constantly had in mind the average man intelligently interested in political affairs. It is for this reason that to each of these personages is given a somewhat extended historical setting which may enable any reader to understand his environment, the men and things with which he contended, and the results which he sought and accomplished.
September, 1967. Speech to PC convention, quoted in I Never Say Anything Provocative by Wente, Margaret. (Toronto: Peter Martin Associates Limited, 1975.)
“I like walking in the park… plucking out nose hairs. Those sleeping winos hate that.”
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (Episode 303)
“The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love.”
Vol. I, p. 113 <!-- 90? intellectual cleverness that remains merely cynical and confined to the personal or partisan contrasted with wise compassionate awareness which transcends such bounds and abides with the eternal and universal qualities and vital resolutions beyond all mortal aims. -->
1980s, Letters to the Schools (1981, 1985)
Context: The very nature of intelligence is sensitivity, and this sensitivity is love. Without this intelligence there can be no compassion. Compassion is not the doing of charitable acts or social reform; it is free from sentiment, romanticism and emotional enthusiasm. It is as strong as death. It is like a great rock, immovable in the midst of confusion, misery and anxiety. Without this compassion no new culture or society can come into being. Compassion and intelligence walk together; they are not separate. Compassion acts through intelligence. It can never act through the intellect. Compassion is the essence of the wholeness of life.
