
“Most harm is done by people who are awake.”
The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, May 16, 2008
You Shall Know Our Velocity! (2002)
“Most harm is done by people who are awake.”
The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, May 16, 2008
“We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake?”
Source: The Wee Free Men
Source: Political Testament (1949), p. 80
Context: We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality. If war should come, it will do so on account of our delusions, for which our hag-ridden conscience attempts to find moral excuses. To recover a sense of reality is to recover the truth about ourselves and the world in which we live, and thereby to gain the power of keeping this world from flying asunder.
As quoted in The Defiant Imagination : Why Culture Matters (2004) by Max Wyman, p. 85
“I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance.”
Light (1919), Ch. XIX - Ghosts
Context: In those former times we lived. Now we hardly live any more, since we have lived. They who we were are dead, for we are here. Her glances come to me, but they do not join again the two surviving voids that we are; her look does not wipe out our widowhood, nor change anything. And I, I am too imbued with clear-sighted simplicity and truth to answer "no" when it is "yes." In this moment by my side Marie is like me.
The immense mourning of human hearts appears to us. We dare not name it yet; but we dare not let it not appear in all that we say.
Exchange in an interview between John Dickerson and James Mattis on CBS' "Face the Nation" on May 28, 2017.
About a free Tyneside gig.
What's On North East http://www.whatsonne.co.uk/gb/music/news/interview-paul-smith-maximo-park