"The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote."

--

Source : Andrew Vachss (2008). “Terminal: A Burke Novel”, p.21, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Andrew Vachss

#People Quotes #Lines Quotes #Vote Quotes

“Nothing capable of being memorized is history.”
“And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (â€œThe Testimony of the Sunsâ€)”

Source : George Sterling, “The Testimony Of The Suns”
“We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.”
“STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.”
“To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.”
“The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.”

Source : Forbes v. Cochrane and Cockburn, 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 159, 1824.
“To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. ''Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are." [...] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.”

Source : "Le Coup d'État permanent". Book by François Mitterrand, Part III, 1964.
“The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.”

Source : James Hogg (1866). “The works of the Ettrick shepherd”, p.430

You may also like: