The World Motivation
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
— Edmund Burke · Age
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
I did not expect to win a Slam at age 20. I did not expect to win Wimbledon. Everything came so, so fast.
I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.
When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.