"Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world."
- Grace Paley
The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by
this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this
rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the
Prophecy also into contempt.
The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies
of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them
to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be
interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters,
be then manifested thereby to the world. For the event of things
predicted many ages before will then be a convincing argument that the
world is governed by Providence.
--Isaac Newton
Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea.
--Simón Bolívar
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When
change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction
is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained,
as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the
past are condemned to repeat it.
--George Santayana
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The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
--Muriel Rukeyser
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The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the
hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but
speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will
be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very
different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas presumed
(accurately or not) to be compatible with what most people already
believe.
--Ellen Willis
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