“When Marinetti founded Futurism in 1909, he called for ‘incendiary violence’ that might drive Italy and Italians out of the ‘fetid somnolence’ of dolce far niente. He incited Futurists and their allies to the destruction of museums, monuments, and universities—to decimate everything that ‘stank of the past’… All of this was suffused with aggression and violence, with an appeal to slaps and blows, to culminate in an invocation to what he called the ‘beauty of battle,’ and the ‘hygiene of war.”

Original Italian text:
È dall'Italia, che noi lanciamo pel mondo questo nostro manifesto di violenza travolgente e incendiaria, col quale fondiamo oggi il «Futurismo», perchè vogliamo liberare questo paese dalla sua fetida cancrena di professori, d’archeologhi, di ciceroni e d’antiquarii.
Source: 1900's, The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism' 1909, p. 52

Book 2, Chapter 8 “Revolutions” (p. 423)
The Steel Tsar (1981)

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 31

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 221.

Famous quotes, 1949

Statement of 1941, as quoted in A People's History (1980) by Howard Zinn, p. 416; also in The Twentieth Century : A People's History (2003) by Howard Zinn, p. 159.

Source: The Odyssey