“The idea ... that collective society should take hold of Evil and set it down hard in its chair and make it cry seems to many of us absolutely sound. Of course, we feel that it is not for us, those who love righteousness, to jump on the necks of the wicked. We prefer to have it attended to in a more dignified, impersonal way by Society as a whole.” WayFeelsShouldIdeasHardWholeSeemsCoursesEvilSoundCryWickedNecksChairsCollectivesRighteousness Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy
“I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing books about the living to the unborn (tucked away as Literature) or writing books about the unborn to the living (whiffed away as prophecy). I put up my life on advertising the living to the living, on making men of genius known to the people and interpreted to their time, that the time in which I live, may live face to face with its men of vision and that they may live face to face with one another.” PeopleMenWritingMayBookIdeasFacesLiteratureKnownVisionGeniusAdvertisingProphecyFace To FaceWriting A BookLiving OnUnborn Book:The House of Twenty Seven Gardens Source: The House of Twenty Seven Gardens