When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
