E. P. Thompson Quotes
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.
Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.
How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.
As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.
When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.
There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
It just feels good to say we're the best team in the world, with the best player in the world.
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
As a rule, I do not approve of messing around with coffee. No sugar, no milk, no chocolate, hazelnuts, cinnamon, no nothing.... Just drink it black, the way God does
Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.
The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
