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Is't on St Joseph's Day clear, If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
He [Sir Richard Burton] was, as has been
well said, an Elizabethan
born out of time; in the days of Drake his very
faults might have counted to his credit. Lord Derby, 19th-Century parliamentarian
His [Richard Burton's] dress and appearance
were those suggesting a released convict, rather than anything of
more repute. He wore, habitually, a rusty black coat with a crumpled
black silk stock, his throat destitute of collar, a costume which
his muscular frame and immense chest made singularly and
incongruously hideous, above it a countenance the most sinister I
have ever seen, dark, cruel, treacherous with eyes like a wild
beast's. He reminded me by turns of a black leopard, caged but
unforgiving ... In his talk he affected an extreme brutality, and if
one could believe the whole of what he said, he had indulged in
every vice and committed every crime. I soon found, however, that
most of these recitals were indulged in pour epater le bourgeiose
and that his inhumanity was more pretended than real. Even the
ferocity of his countenance gave place at times to more agreeable
expressions, and I can just understand the infatuated fancy of his
wife that in spite of his ugliness he was the most beautiful man
alive. |
Fallas, Valencia |
The willingness of the US courts to incarcerate Wilhelm Reich, burn his books, and in general treat him like a criminal, demonstrated how far legal technicalities and procedural issues had replaced the original intent and spirit of the law. Certainly, all the various judges who reviewed Reich's case and ruled against him, from the local and district court judges to the US Supreme Court judges, knew they were agreeing to censorship of speech and to the burning of books.
James DeMeo, PhD, Director of Research, Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory; the US Government burned
Wilhelm Reich's books on March 19, 1954
[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
Judy Blume
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and statesman
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.
Benjamin Franklin
Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
Abbie Hoffman, Yippie
founder and activist, and member of the 'Chicago 8' who were indicted on March 19, 1969
I want to be tried not because I support the National Liberation Front – which I do – but because I have long hair. Not because I support the Black Liberation Movement, but because I smoke dope. Not because I am against a capitalist system, but because I think property eats shit. Not because I believe in student power, but that the schools should be destroyed. Not because I'm against corporate liberalism, but because I think people should do whatever the fuck they want, and not because I am trying to organize the working class, but because I think kids should kill parents. Finally, I want to be tried for having a good time and not being serious.
Abbie Hoffman
Free speech is the right to yell "theater" in a crowded fire.
Yippie proverb
coined by Abbie Hoffman
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Abbie Hoffman
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Abbie Hoffman
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Abbie Hoffman
Fantasy is the only truth.
Abbie Hoffman
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
Abbie Hoffman
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman
There is no such thing as an innocent bystander.
Abbie Hoffman
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free people have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman
Morality seems to enter the picture only when individuals interact with each other. It's universally wrong to steal from your
neighbor, but once you get beyond the one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy, the modern plantation of agro-business, or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit. Capitalism is license to steal; the government simply regulates who steals and how much.
Abbie Hoffman
Avoid all needle drugs. The only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
Abbie Hoffman
Supposing one day trucks travelled through the city announcing,
"The war in Vietnam is over! The war is over! Turn on your radio for further information." Within two minutes everybody would be calling their mothers,
"Hey Mom! The war's over!" Nixon would have to go on TV to reassure the American people that the war was still on.
Jerry Rubin,
Yippie
founder and activist, and member of the 'Chicago 8' who were indicted on March 19, 1969
We create revolution by living it.
Jerry Rubin
By the end, everybody had a label – pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
Jerry Rubin
Spread ideas that undercut the content world of
Amerika. We must alienate middle-class Amerika. All watches and clocks will be destroyed; barbers will go to rehabilitation camps where they will grow their hair long.
Jerry Rubin
Abbie Hoffman is something akin to an American prophet.
USA President Jimmy Carter
There was the Youth International Party (yippies), minions of the absurd whose leaders failed last fall to levitate the Pentagon but whose antics at least leavened the grim seriousness of the New Leftists with much-needed humor.
TIME, September 6, 1968
The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder.
USA President George W
Bush; misleading the people of the USA about Iraq in his address, March
19, 2003
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First day of the Greater
Quinquatria,
Festival of Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom, Roman
Empire
(Mar
19 - 23)
The name of this festival
to Minerva derives from its duration of five
days. It was also known as the Minervalia. The Palladium* statue
which had supposedly fallen from Olympus was carried in procession during
the Quinquatria.
On this, the first day (the
Quinquatrus),
sacrifices and oblations were offered, though no blood was spilled.
Throughout
the festival, plays would be enacted and public discussion of the arts
openly encouraged. The festival was also associated with the opening of
the campaign season; during this time the arms, horses and trumpets of the
army would be ceremoniously purified at Rome.
During the following days the citizens enjoyed gladiatorial displays, and on the fifth and final day a solemn procession made its way through the streets of Rome. On these days the trumpets (tubae) were lustrated (purified by offerings); this seems to have been originally a separate festival called 'Tubilustrium'. Unlike today's instrument, a tuba was a long, straight trumpet, but we know that, like the tuba, it made a deep sound. These were were blown during sacrifices, funerals and public games, and Scipio Africanus used them to cause Hannibal's elephants to stampede at his final defeat at Carthage.
Sacrifices were
offered to Minerva, the Roman goddess of war as well as wisdom, arts and
crafts, dyeing, science and trade, and patroness of trumpet players. She was also the patroness of scholars
and pedagogues (teachers), who enjoyed a holiday at this time, with the
pupils giving their pedagogues gifts, dedicated to Minerva, at the close
of the festival. We see her depicted in art with Juno and
Jupiter on the
Great Arch of Trajan, and she frequently appears on sarcophagi offering a
new life beyond the grave.
The Roman goddess Minerva probably derived from
the Etruscan goddess Menrva,
and was later modelled on Greek Pallas
Athena. Menrva was the
Etruscan version of Athena, and depicted
similarly (with helm, spear, and shield). Like Athena, Menrva was born
from the head of a god, in her case Tinia, and she is part of a triad with
Tinia and Uni. Minerva sprang fully armed from the head of Jupiter
(Zeus),
whose head had been split open with
Vulcan's axe.
Modern Minervalias were
held early in the 20th Century in
Guatemala City,
Guatemala.
In Greek and Roman mythology, a palladium was an image of immemorial antiquity on which the safety of a city was said to depend, especially the one that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy. It features in Graeco-Roman works such as the Aeneid. 'Palladium' also refers to the specific statue that Athena erected of Pallas, daughter of Triton.
The Trojan Palladium was said to be the image of Pallas, whom the Greeks identified with Athene and the Romans with Minerva, and to have fallen from heaven in answer to the prayer of Ilus, the founder of Troy. Since Troy could not be captured while it contained this image, the Greeks Diomedes and Odysseus carried it off during the Trojan War. According to various versions of this legend it found its way to Athens, or Argos, or Sparta (all in Greece), or Rome in Italy. To this last city it was either brought by Aeneas the exiled Trojan (Diomedes having only succeeded in stealing an imitation of the statue) or surrendered by Diomedes himself. It was kept there in the temple of Vesta in the Roman Forum.
According to myth, the importance of the Palladium to Troy was revealed to the Greeks by Helenus, the prophetic son of Priam, and Diomedes and Odysseus made their way to the citadel in Troy by a secret passage and took the image. In this way the Greeks were then able to enter Troy and lay it waste using the conceit of the Trojan Horse.
"The most ancient talismanic effigies of Athena," Ruck and Staples report ... "... were magical found objects, faceless pillars of Earth in the old manner, before the Goddess was anthropomorphized and given form through the intervention of human intellectual meddling."
In Late Antiquity, it was rumored that the Palladium was transferred from Rome to Constantinople by Constantine and buried under the Column of Constantine in his forum. Such a move would have undermined the primacy of Rome, and was naturally seen as a move by Constantine to legitimize his reign.
See also Quinquatrus Minusculae (Lesser Quinquatrus) of Minerva, kalends of June (Jun 13 - 15)
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