"The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“I believe that human brilliance manifests itself only in flashes, among rare individuals. For this reason, humanity as a whole is enormously destructive: the creation of something as devastating as Western culture, which is now allowed to spread throughout the world, offers sufficient proof of this fact.”

Source : Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.133, Arktos
“I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press
“O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?”

Source : 'Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes' (1899) 'Calculating Clara'
“Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.”
“And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.”
“It's fun to play happy people.”
“You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.”

Source : Song: Merry Happy, Album: Made of Bricks, 2007
“We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.”

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