Tuesday, September 21, 2010

more musings

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
- Alfred North Whitehead

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
- Eugene McCarthy

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
- Norman Mailer

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