J. G. A. Pocock famous quotes

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The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being...
-- J. G. A. Pocock

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As in Machiavelli, the bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being; but the possession of land in nondependent tenure is now the material basis for bearing of arms.
-- J. G. A. Pocock

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We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.
I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.
Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.
One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.

J. G. A. Pocock famous quotes

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