CLR James on the Paris Commune - Appeared under a pseudonym in the 18 March 1946 issue of Labor Action, newspaper of the Workers Party of the United States.
History of the Paris Commune - History of the first workers government ever created. Timeline of events, image gallery, overview of how the Commune operated and works on the Paris Commune by Karl Marx, Jenny Marx and Henri Lissagaray.
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Paris Commune Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Paris Commune
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Paris Commune If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Paris Commune
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Paris Commune I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Paris Commune
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Paris Commune When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Paris Commune
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Paris Commune "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Paris Commune
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Paris Commune To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Paris Commune
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Paris Commune Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Paris Commune
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Paris Commune "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Paris Commune
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Paris Commune The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Paris Commune
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Paris Commune The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Paris Commune
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Paris Commune "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Paris Commune
