"The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing."

-- Edwin M. Stanton

#Breathing Quotes #Necks Quotes #Bags Quotes

“We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering we say the only ethical way to consume flesh is to pick up the carcass of an animal who has died naturally or been killed accidentally, say by being hit by a car, and eat that.”
“I may buy the Alamo and give it back to Mexico.”
“That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.”
“The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.”
“Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.”
“Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.”
“I did theater before I got into TV and everything I did was serious, so it was definitely fun for me to pull out those chops, I definitely wanted to do a movie that just wasn't comedy.”
“It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market.”

Source : Harry Magdoff (1966). “Economic Aspects of U.S. Imperialism”

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