He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife. ]
The industrial age is over. What follows will be life lived on a much smaller and finer scale.
America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.
A land full of places that are not worth caring about may soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.
We don't need gold plated highways. We don't need zoning commissions which penalize offices at home and promote car commutes.
Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.
I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride.