Alienation quotes and words of wisdom |  | "Here"s how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep
off "rain" and "snow," holes cut in the sides so they can see out. They
move around in smaller boxes, painted different colours, with wheels on
the corners. They need this box-culture because each person thinks of
herself and himself as locked in a box called a "body," arms and legs,
fingers to move pencils and tools, languages because they"ve forgotten how
to communicate, eyes because they"ve forgotten how to see. Odd little
planet. Wish you were here. Home soon." | |  | Richard David Bach
| | | "I have read and heard a good many statements by eminent writers and
speakers to the effect that our liberty of which we are justly proud is an
achievement, and not a gift. In the sense that it had to be worked for,
fought for, and preserved with vigilance these statements are true. But
let it never be forgotten that our concept of liberty is a gift. No human
is the author of that concept. Many great men have so recognized it as did
Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence and declared
that "men are endowed with certain inalienable rights." Why are these
rights inalienable? Because men did not create the right to liberty! In
the exercise of his free agency he may surrender his privileges, and his
property, and he may become the slave of others or of the state, but his
free agency is as native to him as the air he breathes. It is part and
parcel of his eternal constitution, and Jefferson was "righter than I
think he himself knew" when he declared it an endowment which cannot be
alienated. The message which we bear affirms that God is the Author of our
inalienable liberty; that men, all men are of noble lineage, sons and
daughters of the Eternal Father; and that liberty is their birthright. I
thank God that... noble men were blessed with this lofty concept of man"s
inherent right to liberty and that they were prompted to incorporate these
divine principles in the organic law and history of our favored
land." | | | Stephen L. Richards
| | | "I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made." | | | Alfred Edward Housman
| | | "There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day
society: to retreat ahead of it." | | | Roland Barthes
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Interesting Quotes
Never judge a book by its movie.J.W. Eagan
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about reality.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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