Eliot Weinberger Quotes
Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.
Eliot Weinberger
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Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.
Edmund Spenser
The MEChA slogan is 'Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada,' which translates, 'For the race, everything. Outside of the race, nothing.' The MEChA slogan seems a conscious echo of the Fascist slogan of Mussolini: 'Everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing above the state.'
Pat Buchanan
Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.
Sam Keen
I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
Tallulah Bankhead
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
Albert Claude
The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.
Pope Benedict XVI
If we humans disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.
David Attenborough
We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.
Rain
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,And the day is dark and dreary.
Rain
Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
Washington Allston
Contracting a fatal disease.
John McCain
Hear the wind and you will know the wind. Wind blows, and the generations are its leaves. There was no higher praise than what was said of Confucius: He knows where the wind comes from.
Eliot Weinberger
