Quotes about "Space & Cosmic Perspective"

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ”

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. ”

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. ”

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ”

Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them. ”

The big problems are where people don't realise they have one in the first place. ”

David Milch is one of the smartest human beings I've ever met. I'm relatively bright and relatively well-read. I'm not in a league with that guy. ”

For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder. ”

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. ”

Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.' ”