#tho

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#before #bump #i #least #off

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artists #called #craft #does #gods

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#casualties #cause #container #could #day

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. ↗

— George Orwell

#power #without #worshipper

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. ↗

— George Orwell

#beds #harm #men #night #our

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ↗

— George Orwell

#catch #consumes #creature #does #eggs

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. ↗

— George Orwell

#fire #hot #kind #know #left-wing

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ↗

— George Orwell

#corrupt #corrupts #language #thought

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. ↗

— George Orwell

#assuming #both #cannot #catholic #communist

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. ↗

— George Orwell

#aspire #beings #felt #genuinely #human