Great Throughts Treasury

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

"I hate it in friends when they come too late to help." - Euripedes NULL

"Impudence is the worst of all human diseases." - Euripedes NULL

"The conflict of patience is such, that the vanquished is better than the vanquisher." - Euripedes NULL

"The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love." - Euripedes NULL

"Your very silence shows you agree." - Euripedes NULL

"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

"In order to join vigorously in the moral work of the world I must believe that somehow the best I can accomplish will endure, will leave its trace on things, will aid the final consummation." - Felix Adler

"Poverty wants many things, and avarice all." - Italian Proverbs

"For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colors!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colors, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.'" - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien