Bill,
To paraphrase Ralph on Walt, you said some things incomparably well, as they must be said... I can only quote a few of my idols, in the knowledge that they contradict each other, and yet they all speak the truth.
The Great Day
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!
A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot.
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.
-- WB Yeats
From: Law Like Love
Others say, Law is our Fate;
Others say, Law is our State;
Others say, others say
Law is no more,
Law has gone away.
And always the loud angry crowd,
Very angry and very loud,
Law is We,
And always the soft idiot softly Me.
-- WH Auden
“It is always a question of tilting the scales in the favor of the oppressed.”
-- Simone Weil (from memory...)
Last edited by Michael F; 02-13-2017 at 09:33 PM.
Reason: my memory
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