History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

Machines have no political opinions, but they have profound political effects. They demand a strict regimentation of time, and, by abolishing the need for manual skill, have transformed the majority of the population from workers into laborers. There are, that is to say, fewer and fewer jobs which a man can find a pride and satisfaction in doing well, more and more which have no interest in themselves and can be valued only for the money they provide.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.