This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
The most barbarous fact in all christendom is the labor market. The mere term sufficiently expresses the animalism of commercial civilization.They who buy and they who sell in the labor market are alike dehumanized by the inhuman traffic in the brains and blood and bones of human beings.
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Frankly, said the Doctor, I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none - except possibly folk dancing.
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Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon.