…you are without set ideas and patterns; you are not bound by any social, philosophical, or religious standards. You are free from that indoctrination; therefore you are able to see…

..don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience...”

'Ah, music,' he said, wiping his eyes. 'A magic beyond all we do here!'

'Arms racing' is a patterns of behavior that spreads itself like a virus from one country to another, harming everyone.

'God' is merely a symbol that points beyond itself to an indescribable transcendence.

'God'—the Power that always gives us more than we are able to receive and always asks for more than we are able to give.

'History repeats itself' and this saying has become a truism. Nevertheless, the study of the past is relegated to the scholar and the school boy—a testimony to human stupidity. We are like youth that can never learn from age. [History] is a really a chart for our guidance... where we now are going astray and losing ourselves, other men once did the same, and they left a record of the blind alleys they went down.

'Hope' is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul –
... Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

'I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

'I'll sue you,' the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, 'I've never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.'

'Lo, Laughing,' she says, 'into the World I blow:
Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw.'

'Love of the neighbor' is always something secondary, partly convential and arbitrary-illusion in relation to fear of the neighbor.

'Nature' is a term that may lend itself to any ethic and any theology; it fits the science of Darwin and the unmorality of Nietzsche more snugly than the sweet reasonableness of Lao Tzu and Christ.

'Politicians and generals who always want to extend their territories and fill their treasuries are called, 'Robbers of the People” and should suffer the highest punishments.

'Property' has acquired an almost greater sacredness in our social conscience than religion: for offense against the latter there is lenience, for damage to the former no forgiveness.

'Robber Barons' who presided over an era of economic freewheeling and corruption that historians have referred to as 'bandit capitalism'... were seize-the-day opportunists who were perfectly prepared to lie, bribe, steal, exploit and bend the rules in order to amass their personal fortunes.

'Sir, you are offering a fake, an imitation of the authentic'… Akin to primal childhood awakening; facts of life… Synthetic image distilled from hearing assorted talk. Myth implanted subtly in tissue of the brain.

'That's well said,' replied Candide, 'but we must cultivate our garden.'

'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give victory.