Quotes, proverbs & poetry

Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest.

It is better to arrive a little late in this world than early in the next.

If you'd kept your mouth shut, we might have thought you were clever.

I have loved thee the most And I shall love thee to my barrow (burial mound)

If one wants to dissolve the glue that holds democratic societies together, just do… Send jobs overseas. Champion billionaires over working people. Ignore inequality. Let technologies disrupt society with impunity. Practise techno-pragmatism (only more disruptive technologies can solve social and ecological problems). Replace class politics with microaggressions. Worship Growth as the only God. Dismiss ecological destruction as just the price of progress. Subvert community with identity politics. Turn citizens with responsibilities into consumers with rights. And then pretend that democracies are immune to tragedy and exist outside of history.

"Humans have free will in matters they know, but are guided by fate in matters they do not know.

The one who reads does not steal; the one who steals does not read.

I have wrought my plan

There were times when he envied the laboratory rats he worked with; their brains so simple.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol'n the scraps.