“A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done.” WorldDoneDreamInspirationTogetherImpossibleGenerationsKingsBreathsSoldierWorking TogetherOur DreamsPeasantsSeemingWondrous Author:Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.” WorldPowerfulOne ThingKingsPerseveranceSoldierPersevereVisionaries Author:Paul Delaroche
“Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, usurers, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians - all of them, down to the meanest grocer, repeat in chorus the words of Voltaire, that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.” IfsWould BeAtheismKingsPoliticianPropertySoldierPositive AtheismLawyerRepeatsOwnersPriestsCapitalistBusinessmanEconomistBankersPolicemenStatesmenChorusHangmanJailerGrocers Author:Mikhail Bakunin
“Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.” LittlesWarPlayEarthValuesLosesKingsCreaturesSoldierRepublic Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.” BelieveDoeHas BeensWarCasesKingsBattleDrinkingEndureSoldierAlcoholCoffeeBeerHardshipPrussiaGreat Coffee Author:Frederick The Great
“Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.” ShouldKingsBraveSoldierPossessionSpainDominionBrag Author:John Smith
“I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.” CareDiesEnjoyBornJudgingDutyKingsElectionSoldierSenateDestinedBetter LifePublicityForumsSeclusion Author:Tertullian
“Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.” PeopleChristianCoursesJusticePoorKingsSoldierCommittedChaptersMatthew Author:Cornel West
“I remember when Martin Luther King was assassinated and riots broke out in the city. We celebrated Palm Sunday on 14th Street. I have a memory of walking down the street with buildings smoldering, and soldiers and cops everywhere. Anyways, it [St. Stephen’s] was a church that really taught me the things I needed to learn to not go to church. But I think it is a church that does great work, I went to a wedding there three days ago.” ThinkingDoeRememberThreeChurchMemoriesCitiesStreetsBuildingTaughtKingsNeededWalkingSoldierBrokeSundayCopPalmsRemember WhenGreat WorkLutherRiotPalm Sunday Author:Ian MacKaye
“I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye." "If you were a lord, you should be my lord, And the same if you were a thief," said she. "And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper, For it makes no matter to me, to me, For it makes no matter to me." "But what if it prove that I am no harper? That I lied for your love most monstrously?" "Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing, For I dearly love a good harp," said she.” IfsShouldSaidMatterPlayPoorLordTeachArmsKingsProveSoldierWhat IfThievesLiedHarpsHarper Book:The Last Unicorn Source: The Last Unicorn
“They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.” IfsMenHumansHateHumanitySpeakNationsEffortRaceClassMiddleMankindStrangeKingsDespairSoldierCuriousMiddle ClassPriestsAdoreDistrustHumaneSailorDividingWorking Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.” UseBornTalkingOpinionMastersKingsHeroMiserySoldierLoyalMonkeysNever ChangeSockMinions Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine