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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
What the workingmen of the country are profoundly interested in is the private ownership of the means of production and distribution, the enslaving and degrading wage-system in which they toil for a pittance at the pleasure of their masters and are bludgeoned, jailed or shot when they protest — this is the central, controlling, vital issue of the hour, and neither of the old party platforms has a word or even a hint about it. As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.
Age | Awakening | Conquest | Duty | Glory | History | Nothing | Object | Reason | War | Wealth | World |
Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interest of all the people. That is the demand.
Control | Government | Power | Government |
Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. You need to know that you were not created to work and produce and impoverish yourself to enrich an idle exploiter. You need to know that you have a mind to improve, a soul to develop, and a manhood to sustain.
Children | Duty | Obligation | Think |
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.
Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.
Power |
This wide and generous spirit of love, not the religious egotist's longing to get away from the world to God, is the fruit of true self-oblation; for a soul totally possessed by God is a soul totally possessed by Charity. By the path of self-offering, the Church and the soul have come up to the frontiers of the Holy. There we are required, not to cast the world from us, but to do our best for all others as well as ourselves.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
Duty |
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
We possess nothing certainly except the past.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored