Quotations:

"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence."
-- Erich Fromm

"Making revolution also means breaking our internal chains." - Grafitti, Paris 1968

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves." - Howard Zinn

"the very fact. . . that a person has a consciousness of self, of being different from others, creates a desire to act freely. The craving for liberty and self-expression is a very fundamental and dominant trait." Emma Goldman

"In the deph of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer." -Albert Camus

"I know very well who Satan is: He is freedom. He is the uncontrolled, the incalculable, the antithesis of order and discipline, the antithesis of the legalism of outer space.... We know where a planet will be in twelve years, four months and nine days. But we don't know where a butterfly will have flown one minute hence. Therefore the butterfly is of Satan."- Jens Bjorneboes

"I do not believe that man is evil, or that man is good - I believe that man is partly evil and partly good. Which side is allowed to grow and develop depands on ourself." - Jens Bjorneboe

"The revolution must become continuous-eternal-it must be new every single day; the revolution must be permanent. Otherwise the society will degenerate and fossilize into centralism. It will no longer grow. But living transformation, development and growth are not possible unless we swallow the bitter pill which today is the despised and disvalued intellectual freedom." -Jens Bjorneboes

"She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes" - Byron

"To be nobody but yourself when the whole world is trying its best night and day to make you everybody else is to fight the hardest battle any human being will ever fight." - e.e. cummings

"Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse." - Groucho Marx

I have never seen two people on pot get in a fight because it is fucking IMPOSSIBLE. "Hey, buddy!" "Hey, what?" "Ummmmmmm...." End of argument. --Bill Hicks

"The word's suppression gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness." --Lenny Bruce

Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen

'The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.' - Alfred Kinsey

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying."
-Robert Herrick

"Sweet springtime is my time is your time is our time for springtime is love time and viva sweet love." -e. e. cummings

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace things, but burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars" -Jack Kerouac

"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood." -- Oscar Wilde

"And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." - Shakespeare

Olaf (being to all intents
a corpse and wanting any rag
upon what God unto him gave)
responds, without getting annoyed
"I will not kiss your fucking flag"
-- e.e. cummings

Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro' the World we safely go,
Joy and Woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
-- William Blake

`Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you --
Ye are many -- they are few.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

HE is made one with Nature: there is heard
His voice in all her music, from the moan
Of thunder, to the song of night’s sweet bird;
He is a presence to be felt and known
In darkness and in light, from herb and stone
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

WHEN by my solitary hearth I sit,
When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.
-- John Keats

ALL things are full of God. Thus spoke
Wise Thales in the days
When subtle Greece to thought awoke
And soared in lofty ways.
And now what wisdom have we more?
No sage divining-rod
Hath taught than this a deeper lore,
ALL THINGS ARE FULL OF GOD.
-- John Stuart Blackie

‘O’er my sins thou sit and moan:
Hast thou no sins of thy own?
O’er my sins thou sit and weep,
And lull thy own sins fast asleep.
-- William Blake

Love, faithful love, recall'd thee to my mind—
But how could I forget thee? Through what power,
Even for the least division of an hour,
Have I been so beguiled as to be blind
To my most grievous loss?—That thought's return
Was the worst pang that sorrow ever bore,
Save one, one only, when I stood forlorn,
Knowing my heart's best treasure was no more;
That neither present time, nor years unborn
Could to my sight that heavenly face restore.
-- William Wordsworth

Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.
-- Walt Whitman

"God said, I am tired of kings,
I suffer them no more;
Up to my ear the morning brings
The outrage of the poor.

Think ye I made this ball
A field of havoc and war,
Where tyrants great and tyrants small
Might harry the weak and poor?

My angel,—his name is Freedom,—
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west
And fend you with his wing."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For all that lives is holy. -- William Blake

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake

Energy is the only life, and is from the Body; and Reason is the bound or
outward circumference of Energy. Energy is eternal delight . . . Eternity is
in love with the productions of time.
God only Acts and Is, in existing beings or Men.
-- William Blake

O! the one Life within us and abroad,
Which meets all motion and becomes its soul,
A light in sound, a sound-like power in light,
Rhythm in thought, and joyance everywhere -
Methinks, it should have been impossible
Not to love all things in a world so filled. . .
And what if all of animated nature
Be but organic harps diversely framed,
That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps
Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
At once the Soul of each, and God of all.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But thou my babe! shalt wander like a breeze
By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags
Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds,
Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores
And mountain crags: so shalt thou see and hear
The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible
Of that eternal language, which thy God
Utters, who from eternity doth teach
Himself in all, and all things in himself.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Earth's crammed with heaven
And every common bush alive with God
Only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit around and pluck blackberries."
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Heaven and earth, the watered plains, the moon's shining globe, the sun and
stars are all strengthened by Spirit working within them, and mind stirs
this great mass, infused through all its limbs and mixed in with its body.
-- Virgil, Aeneid

A bird and its young had been captured, and Eckermann was amazed to see that
it went on feeding its young inside his house.
`If you believed in God, you would not be surprised. If God did not inspire
the bird with this powerful instinct towards its young, and if the same did
not pervade every living thing in nature, the world would not be able to
exist! But divine power is spread everywhere and eternal love is active
everywhere.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What kind of God would push only from outside,
letting the cosmos circle round his finger?
He likes to drive the world from inside,
harbours the world in Himself, Himself in the world,
so all that lives and weaves and is in Him
never wants for his power or his spirit.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I hear and behold God in every object. . .
Why should I wish to see God better than this day?
I see something of God each hour of the twenty four,
and each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass.
I find letters from God dropped in the street - and every one is signed by
God's name,
And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come
forever and ever.
-- Walt Whitman

"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt." -- Paul Tillich

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use."
-- Soren Kierkegaard

"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."
-- John Cage

"Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.... At night the ice-weasels come"
-- Matt Groening

"I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die 'Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old" -William Shakespeare

"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
-- T. S. Eliot

''Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study.''
Alfred North Whitehead

''It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.''
George Santayana

''My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.''
William James

''The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.''
Paul Tillich

"Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts."
Charles Sanders Peirce

''The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.''
Alfred North Whitehead

''The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.''
Alfred Tarski

"Circus-tent con-men and Southern belle bunnies
Milk your emotions then they steal your money
It's the new dark ages with the fascists toting bibles
Cheap nostalgia for the Salem Witch Trials
Stodgy ayatollahs in their double-knit ties
Burn lots of books so they can feed you their lies"
-- Jello Biafra, of the Dead Kennedys

"And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
-- Yeshua of Nazareth

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