“You inflict eternal punishment on people,” Julie countered.
“Merely because it’s our job. And remember, we persecute only the guilty, which puts us one up on most other institutions.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 9 (p. 162)
“The hell with him, he thought bitterly. The hell with patriotism in general. In the specific and the abstract. Birds of a feather, soldiers and cops. Anti-intellectual and anti-Negro. Anti-everything except beer, dogs, cars and guns.”
—
Philip K. Dick
,
book
Eye in the Sky
Source: Eye in the Sky (1957), Chapter 2 (p. 15)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The hell with him, he thought bitterly. The hell with patriotism in general. In the specific and the abstract. Birds of…" by Philip K. Dick?
Philip K. Dick 278
American author 1928–1982Related quotes
“Lean, hungry, savage anti-everythings.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
A modest Request; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Ursula K. Le Guin
(1929–2018) American writer
“In our minds, lad. In our minds. The traitor, the self; the self that cries I want to live; let the world burn so long as I can live! The little traitor soul in us, in the dark, like the worm in the apple.”
Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 9, "Orm Embar" (Arren and Ged)
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 9 (p. 162)
Susan Sontag
(1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Context: One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling... which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. We have more or less the same bodies, but very different kinds of thoughts. I believe that we think much more with the instruments provided by our culture than we do with our bodies, and hence the much greater diversity of thought in the world. Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking.
"Susan Sontag: The Rolling Stone Interview" with Jonathan Cott (1978; published 4 October 1979)
Adrian Hastings
(1929–2001) Roman Catholic priest, historian and author
Adrian Hastings (June 2001) " Chomsky and Kosova - book review http://www.bosnia.org.uk/bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleid=802&reportid=151" in Human Rights Review.
George Washington Carver
(1864–1943) botanist
Quoted in Linda O. McMurray, George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol (Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 107
Kirby Page
(1890–1957) American clergyman
Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 71
Context: We must not only seek to change the moral characters of individuals, we must make an intelligent and strenuous effort to change the present social system. Thought and energy must be devoted to the eradicating of all elements of our present system that are anti-social and unchristian...