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You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done.

John Williams (novelist)

Butcher's Crossing

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Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 3, ch. 1.

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To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination... After the racist statues are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 4.

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What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers nor heart-sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all-the realization at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth.

William Morris

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Morris, William. "How I Became a Socialist." Justice, 16 June 1894.

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Morris, William. How I Became a Socialist, edited by Owen Hatherley. Verso, 2020.

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What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States directly, and to the nations of Europe more remotely. And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Frederick Jackson Turner

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

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Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.

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The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory.

Elliot Paul

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Paul, Elliot. The Last Time I Saw Paris. ‎Random House, 1942, pt. 2, ch. 23.

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At first it was a giant column that soon took the shape of a supramundane mushroom.

William L. Laurence

The New York Times

Reporting on the first detonation of an atomic bomb which occurred in New Mexico on July 16th, 1945.

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Laurence, William L. "Drama of the Atomic Bomb Found Climax in July 16 Test; Drama of the Atomic Bomb Found Climax in New Mexico Test Caravan of Scientists by Night Directions for Observers' Safety Roar Reverberations Over Desert." The New York Times, 26 Sept. 1945.

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To protect the workers in their inalienable rights to a higher and better life; to protect them, not only as equals before the law, but also in their health, their homes, their firesides, their liberties as men, as workers, and as citizens; to overcome and conquer prejudice and antagonism; to secure to them the right to life, and the opportunity to maintain that life; the right to be full sharers in the abundance which is the result of their brain and brawn, and the civilization of which they are the founders and the mainstay... The attainment of these is the glorious mission of the trade unions.

Samuel Gompers

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Gompers, Samuel. "Trade Unions - Their Philosophy." Jan. 1898, USA. Speech.

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Gompers, Samuel. Quoted in The State and the Unions, written by Christopher Tomlins. Cambridge University Press, 1985, ch. 3.

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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet.

Hugh Keough

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Keough, Hugh. Quoted in Collier's. Feb. 1919.

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Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the comencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament which the Great First Cause endured with animality... And thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!

Erasmus Darwin

Zoonomia

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Darwin, Erasmus. Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life. Vol. 1, London: Joseph Johnson, 1794, sec. 39.

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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

John Philpot Curran

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Curran, John Philpot. Speech on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. 10 July 1790, Dublin, Ireland.

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To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal.

Jules Huret

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Mallarme, Stephane. Quoted in "Sur l'Evolution Litteraire [On Literary Evolution]." Enquete de Huret [Investigation by Jules Huret]. Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1891.

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Laissez faire does not mean: Let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: Let each individual choose how he wants to cooperate in the social division of labor; let the consumers determine what the entrepreneurs should produce. Planning means: Let the government alone choose and enforce its rulings by the apparatus of coercion and compulsion.

Ludwig von Mises

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

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Von Mises, Ludwig. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Yale University Press, 1949, ch. 27.

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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Cardinal Ratzinger, Joseph (later Pope Benedict XVI). "Homily of His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger." Conclave of cardinals, Mass. 18 Apr. 2005, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

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For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you. In almost any slum there is a vast conspiracy against the forces of law and order.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 1.

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Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Lewis Allan

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Allan, Lewis. "Strange Fruit." Performed by Billie Holiday. Commodore Records, 1939.

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, "epistle dedicatory." Originally published by Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

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