ISSUE 2
“Very few of us get to participate in the creation of our culture
these days. Mostly culture is something you rent at the video store,
and that's a crime. Given half a chance, people would astonish each
other with their capacities to imagine and create."
-- Rebecca Gordon, Collateral Damage
"What is most original in a man's nature is often that which
is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men
who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is."
-- Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
“If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find
that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors,
as often as by the governed.”
-- Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
-- Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso
that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals
“You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the
tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.”
-- Woodrow Wilson, address, New York City, 1912
“There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the
amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not
habit-bound.”
-- Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun
“Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught,
it is pre-eminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great
men.”
-- John Ruskin, Modern Painters
“To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore
to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or
attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.”
-- John Ruskin, Modern Painters
ISSUE 1
Knowledge – that is, education in its true sense – is
our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making
fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities,
or panic-stricken leaders.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech, Boston (October 31, 1932)
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn
over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Journals (1841)
A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Leaves from a Notebook,”
Ponkapong Papers (1903)
Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters
of Life’s longing for itself. - Kahlil Gibran, “On
Children,” The Prophet (1923)
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely
and strive ruthlessly to fulfill them. - Sigmund Freud, “Dreams
of the Death of Beloved Persons,”The Interpretation of Dreams
(1899)
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and
mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers,
have reverted to being little devils – not theological demons
inspired by the Evil One, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired
by the Unconscious. - Bertrand Russell, “The Virtue of the
Oppressed,” Unpopular Essays (1950)
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to
be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
- John Updike, “A Foreword for Younger Readers,” Assorted
Prose (1965)
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a
form of truth.
- John F. Kennedy, address, Amherst College, October 26, 1963
