“Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked.” ShouldCountryMomentsLawPoliticalLyingPoliticsNaturalJusticePrinciplesRightsOughtRootsProtectionSubstitutesEfficientCommerceEntitledPolitical SystemsLegal RightsNatural Justice Author:James F. Cooper
“Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.” PeopleWayEnoughMomentsHandsLyingMoneyRootsFishesSoilShakesChickensBasketsHackedBeets Book:Tales of Neveryeon Source: Tales of Neveryeon
“Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment.” MayLittlesMomentsTreeRootsOriginalsExcitementBranchesPoetry IsVery DeepDeep Roots Author:Joan Larkin
“A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.” Has BeensMomentsRememberSexParentBornLonelinessTaughtAnxietyJokesRootsOppositesForgottenSeparationAttachmentDreadRecallsInfantToiletsAbandonmentTaught Us Author:Jo Coudert