Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Prejudice

"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." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"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." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith." - Felix Adler

"One may have good eyes and yet see nothing." - Italian Proverbs