“Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the violation of human dignity and liberty for all eternity.”
Source: On the Marble Cliffs
“The savage cuts down the tree to gather its fruit, he unharnesses the ox that missionaries have just given him, and cooks it with the wood of the plough. He has known us for three centuries without having wanted anything from us, except gunpowder to kill his fellows and brandy to kill himself.”
Source: St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
“The world is changing, changing very fast. We have to reach within ourselves and find the strength to be calm and stable in this ever-changing world.”
“Wisdom is better found in the quiet. Tree meditations dull the noises of society.”
Source: The Magic of Trees
“L'Occidente, e al suo interno l'Italia, saprà sopravvivere anche a questo lungo inverno se attingerà alle qualità del suo modello, non se ammirerà chi lo odia. Il lungo inverno può preludere a una stagione di creatività, in cui troveremo risposte innovative ai nostri problemi energetici ed economici”
Source: Il lungo inverno: False apocalissi, vere crisi, ma non ci salverà lo stato
“We live in a society where people only want to see what their eyes like to see and only want to hear what their ears like to hear.”
“We make a great mistake, sir, when we suppose that all people are capable of self-government. We are anxious to force free government on all; and I see that it has been urged in a very respectable quarter, that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty over all the world, and especially over this continent. It is a great mistake. None but people advanced to a very high state of moral and intellectual improvement are capable, in a civilized state, of maintaining free government; and amongst those who are so purified, very few, indeed, have had the good fortune of forming a constitution capable of endurance.”
Source: Speech of Mr Calhoun, of S. Carolina, on the Bill to Provide for the Collection of Duties on Imports
“we sweat through our doldrums somehow, sheer insane boredom. society can no longer focus – my poems keep drying up and blowing away.”
Source: Distant Visions, Again and Again
“The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.”
Source: Violeta
“I am an author of new hashtags.”