My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments." [ ]
The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!
Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.
(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)
I see ghosts like you see a normal person. Looking regular, tangible as ever and even more alive than most of the people you’ll see walking around the streets.
Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.
God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.
She posed as being more indolent than she felt, for fear of finding herself less able than she could wish.
We all know so goddamn well what's best for other people that it seems unnecessary we get to know them before imposing our will on them.
It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!
I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.
Death If he is a good man, death will be a release; If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.
Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring.
I once had a complete life - in love, in envy, in pains. Now, I was living a death. A peaceful, gorgeous, liberating death.
It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage.
A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
