You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

I realized that ritual will always mean throwing away something; Destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.