"A Statement against the War in Vietnam".
The Long-Legged House (1969)
Context: If I solve my dispute with my neighbor by killing him, I have certainly solved the immediate dispute. If my neighbor was a scoundrel, then the world is no doubt better for his absence. But in killing my neighbor, though he may have been a terrible man who did not deserve to live, I have made myself a killer — and the life of my next neighbor is in greater peril than the life of the last. In making myself a killer I have destroyed the possibility of neighborhood.
“If I solve my dispute with my neighbor by killing him, I have certainly solved the immediate dispute. If my neighbor was a scoundrel, then the world is no doubt better for his absence. But in killing my neighbor, though he may have been a terrible man who did not deserve to live, I have made myself a killer — and the life of my next neighbor is in greater peril than the life of the last. In making myself a killer I have destroyed the possibility of neighborhood.”
"A Statement against the War in Vietnam"
The Long-Legged House (1969)
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“In making myself a killer I have destroyed the possibility of neighborhood.”
"A Statement against the War in Vietnam".
The Long-Legged House (1969)
Context: If I solve my dispute with my neighbor by killing him, I have certainly solved the immediate dispute. If my neighbor was a scoundrel, then the world is no doubt better for his absence. But in killing my neighbor, though he may have been a terrible man who did not deserve to live, I have made myself a killer — and the life of my next neighbor is in greater peril than the life of the last. In making myself a killer I have destroyed the possibility of neighborhood.
“God help my neighbors if I loved them as I love myself.”
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
As quoted in The Gospel According to Disney : Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust (2004) by Mark I. Pinsky, p. 20
Year unknown, published in 2004
Quip at Fox/Google debate
YouTube
2012-09-22
http://youtu.be/_hYAWHpfLpc
2012-02-24
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Eddie Vedder introducing Cornell during a Pearl Jam concert on September 4, 2011
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“I would always love Alaska Young, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.”
Miles "Pudge" Halter, p. 218
Looking for Alaska (2005)
“George Bush is not my neighbor.”
http://news.myway.com/politics/article/id/38007%7Cpolitics%7C01-12-2004::07:12%7Creuters.html