“The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.”
Source: L.P.
“It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.”
Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own chimney, but employs a chimney-sweeper, who has no objection to dirty work, because it is his trade.”
Source: L.P.
“In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.”