I am not and I do not claim to be Captain America but, as an Italian-American, I understand America much better than the Italians who think or even believe that they understand her.
Many will hardly keep on dying from hunger if at least some endure to plant and replant, without greed or selfishness.
I know that it's hard to believe that the people you look to for safety and security are the same people who are causing us so much harm. But I'm not lying and I'm not delusional. I am scared and I am hurting and we are dying. And I really, really need you to believe me.
Danger of our culture. We belong to a time in which culture is in danger of being destroyed by the means of culture.
Now the world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
Today I think that prayer is just simply a necessity, because by prayer I believe we mean an effort to get in touch with the Infinite. We know that even our prayers are imperfect. Even our supplications are imperfect. Of course they are. We are imperfect human beings. But if we can back off from those problems and make the effort, then there is something that ties us all together.
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
The bourgeoisie are today evading taxation by bribery and through their connections; we must close all loopholes.
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.