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“This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.”
Source : Eleventh of November 1887: Haymarket Memorial Speech by Voltairine de Cleyre, delivered in Chicago, contentdm.library.uvic.ca. 1901.
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“Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.”
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“Unbelief is a belief.”
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“The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.”
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“I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?”
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“there is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it.”
Source : "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "The Profession of Poetry" (p. 165), 1980.
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“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”