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What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.


Kurt Huber


#body #deficiencies #existing #i #insight

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.


Charles Lawrence


#civil #civil society #firm #gentlemen #guardian

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.


Frank McCourt


#advanced age #age #especially #feel #grave

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.


Malcolm McDowell


#brain #entertaining #entertaining people #get #heart

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.


Donald McKay


#begin #challenging #dialectical #down #fast

We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?


Dianna Hardy


#desire #life #love-of-life #lust #ocean

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."


Claude Pepper


#age #bananas #buy #even #every

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.


Thomas Jefferson


#greatest #i #mankind #scourge #view

You should be spreading the good word. You should be etching the good word onto the glass scanning beds of library photocopiers. You should be scraping the truth onto old auto parts and throwing them off bridges so that people digging in the mud in a million years will question the world, too. You should be carving eyeballs into tire treads and onto shoe soles so that your every trail speaks of thinking and faith and belief. You should be designing molecules that crystallize into poems of devotion. You should be making bar codes that print out truth, not lies. You shouldn't even throw away a piece of litter unless it has the truth stamped on it--a demand for people to reach a finer place! ...Your new life will be tinged with urgency, as though you're digging out the victims of an avalanche. If you're not spending every waking moment of your life living the truth, if you're not plotting every moment to boil the carcass of the old order, then you're wasting your day.


Douglas Coupland


#truth #urgency #design

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.


Steven Pinker


#classism #social-criticism #food






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