"History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them."

-- Neal Ascherson

#Glasses Quotes #Hands Quotes #Years Quotes

“In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.”
“We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom”
“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.”
“Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.”
“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
“My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.”
“Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.”
“And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.”

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