"Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes."

-- Michael Joseph Oakeshott

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“Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.”
“To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.”
“The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.”
“If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.”
“There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs.”
“Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.”
“He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.”
“I have been all men known to history , Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil , and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky .”

Source : "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.

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