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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8fe8671 | The Lakota warrior Iron Hawk later explained why he had pounded a trooper's head into jelly. "These white men wanted it, they called for it, and I let them have it."16" | Peter Cozzens | ||
| 0b8e703 | In a little depression there lay outstretched a stalwart Sioux warrior, stark naked with the exception of a breech clout and moccasins. I could not help feeling a sorrow as I stood gazing upon him. He was within a few hundred yards of his home and family, which we had attempted to destroy and he had tried to defend. The home of the slayer was perhaps a thousand miles away. In a few days the wolves and buzzards would have his remains torn as.. | Peter Cozzens | ||
| f110fc1 | It would slowly become evident that when they committed themselves at last to secession, not as a threat but as an accomplished fact armed for violence, the devoted men who wanted to preserve the Southern way of life had made a tactical error. The ultimate fate of their cause would be largely determined by what was done in Washington. Leaving Washington forever, they had fatally surrendered the initiative. Now their enemies would seize it. | Bruce Catton | ||
| 043c4e9 | The land was used to peace, and in the ordinary way its experience with military matters was confined to the militia muster -- awkward men parading with heavy-footed informality in the public square, jugs circulating up and down the rear rank, fires lit for the barbecue feast, small boys clustering around, half derisive and half admiring -- and if war came the soldier was a minuteman who went to a bloodless field where it was always the oth.. | Bruce Catton | ||
| d47e1c9 | On the contrary, I thought he was rather lucky. He carried with him forever the visible sign that he had fought for his country and had been wounded in its service. Probably only a very backward boy could have thought anything of the kind. | Bruce Catton | ||
| 8644ff3 | So had the eminent clergyman, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, who had told the world that a Sharps rifle was a greater moral agency than a Bible, as far as Kansas was concerned. | Bruce Catton | ||
| d4fef78 | The barn by the Roulette house was jammed with wounded men. Screams, prayers, and curses made it a horrible place, with hundreds of anguished men packed together on the straw begging the surgeons to attend to them--surgeons bare-armed and fearsomely streaked and spattered with blood, piles of severed arms and legs lying by the slippery operating tables, the uproar of the battle beating in through the thin walls. | Bruce Catton | ||
| dd62e69 | such manner as shall seem most likely to conduce to the furtherance of the interests of the Confederate States of | Bruce Catton | ||
| 6f46597 | Young men then went to war believing all of the fine stories they had grown up with; and if, in the end, their disillusion was quite as deep and profound as that of the modern soldier, they had to fall farther to reach it. | Bruce Catton | ||
| 6d6f779 | was the Civil War term for rookie. The idea was that some of the new recruits were of such fantastic greenness that they did not know the left foot from the right and hence could not be taught to keep time properly or to step off on the left foot as all soldiers should. The drill sergeants, in desperation, had finally realized that these green country lads did at least know hay from straw and so had tied wisps of hay to the left foot and st.. | Bruce Catton | ||
| 47947a3 | And a wild, primitive madness seemed to descend on the men who fought in the cornfield: they went beyond the limits of sanity and endurance at times, Northerners and Southerners alike, until it seems that they tore at each other for the sheer sake of fighting. The | Bruce Catton | ||
| 72442b0 | himself came along the slope to rally | Bruce Catton | ||
| ec4a24d | What it really means is that the general must understand that he is not a free agent and cannot hope to become one. He has to work within the limitations imposed by the fact that he is working for a democracy, which means that at times he must modify or abandon the soundest military plan and make do with a second-best. | civil-war | Bruce Catton | |
| dadc573 | And so that generation was deprived of the one element that is essential to the operation of a free society-the ability to assume, in the absence of good proof to the contrary, that men in public life are generally decent, honorable, and loyal. | dysfunctional-society | Bruce Catton | |
| fef7050 | I am not sure how so many Americans came to believe only our wealthy are capable of honoring a food aesthetic. | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| 8dfe765 | For my part, I merely watched young, deprived female bosoms panting before my handsome husband, soldier of the Lord. (I longed to shout: Go ahead and try him, girls, I am too tired!) | Barbara Kingsolver | ||
| ddbdb78 | There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was held up on broad arches of rubble. In Constantinople the minarets flame like great candles round the Golden Horn... Steel, glass, tile, concrete will be the materials of the skyscraper. Crammed on the narrow island the millionwindowed buildings will just glittering, pyramid on pyramid like the white cloudhead above a thunderstorm. | new-york-city | John Dos Passos | |
| e485f4c | Men seemed to have shrunk in stature before the vastness of the mechanical contrivances they had invented. Michael Angelo, da Vinci, Aretino, Cellini; would the strong figures of men ever so dominate the world again? Today everything was congestion, the scurrying of crowds; men had become ant-like. Perhaps it was inevitable that the crowds should sink deeper and deeper in slavery. Whichever won, tyranny from above, or spontaneous organizati.. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 2b64271 | I was Cheryl Anway- that has to count for something. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| f6a4349 | It seems to me," he said very softly, "that human society has been always that, and perhaps will be always that: organizations growing and stifling individuals, and individuals revolting hopelessly against them, and at last forming new societies to crush the old societies and becoming slaves again in their turn...." "I thought you were a socialist," broke in Genevieve sharply, in a voice that hurt him to the quick, he did not know why." | John Dos Passos | ||
| 98399f0 | The pressure exerted by a gas on the walls of its container does not depend upon the individual histories of the molecules composing it," says the French existentialist philosopher." | John dos Passos | ||
| fbac89b | It would mean," he told the editor of the New York World, "that we would lose our heads along with the rest and stop weighing right and wrong. It would mean that a majority of people in this hemisphere would go war mad, quit thinking, and devote their energies to destruction . . . Conformity will be the only virtue. And every man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty . . . Once lead this people into war and they'll forget ther.. | John dos Passos | ||
| fc109a7 | Think of what it was they were applauding," he said at last. "My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that." | John dos Passos | ||
| 5a2c87a | With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation, | John Dos Passos | ||
| 73af8fb | This novel business is an awful business. Why the hell did I ever get mixed up in it? | James McGrath Morris | ||
| 0a7ece4 | Chrisfield looked straight ahead of him. He did not feel lonely any more now that he was marching in ranks again. His feet beat the ground in time with the other feet. He would not have to think whether to go to the right or to the left. He would do as the others did. | John Dos Passos | ||
| fb38ca8 | there can be no reason to believe these officers of an established news organization serving newspapers all over the country failed to realize their responsibilities at a moment of supreme significance to the people of this country. | John Dos Passos | ||
| d07aea9 | How grave a disappointment it must be to our great President, who has exerted himself so to bring the German people to reason, to make them understand the horror that they alone have brought deliberately upon the world! Alas! Far from it. Indeed, they have attempted with insidious propaganda to undermine the morale of our troops...." A little storm of muttered epithets went through the room. The Reverend Dr. Skinner elevated his chubby pink.. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 5bd4a13 | Such afternoons the buses are crowded into line like elephants in a circusparade. Morningside Heights to Washington Square, Penn Station to Grant's Tomb. Parlorsnakes and flappers joggle hugging downtown uptown, hug joggling gray square after gray square, until they see the new moon giggling over Weehawken and feel the gusty wind of a dead Sunday blowing dust in their faces, dust of a typsy twilight. | John Dos Passos | ||
| 3c78590 | But how glum he looks now." She threw some daisies at him. Then, after a pause, she added mockingly: "It's hunger, my dear. Good Lord, how dependent men are on food!" | John Dos Passos | ||
| 5790d9c | admire the United | John Dos Passos | ||
| 1ebe782 | y. I told them to admire us for the hope we still have that there is enough goodness in man to use the omnipotence science has given him to ennoble his life on earth instead of degrading it. Self government, through dangers and distortions and failures, is the American | John Dos Passos | ||
| 0f73c4e | Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible! Think of this new particular vintage of lies that has been so industriously pumped out of the press and the pulpit. Doesn't it stagger you?" Martin" | John Dos Passos | ||
| f2a6e8e | Too goddam many lawyers mixed up in this. Run the sonsobitches out. If they resists shoot 'em, that's what I says to the Governor, but they're all these sonsobitches a lawyers fussin' everythin' up all the time with warrants and habeas corpus and longwinded rigmarole. My ass to habeas corpus. | John Dos Passos | ||
| ca1558b | Le soleil, ruisselant dans le bureau sous les stores baisses, taille dans la fumee des cigares une coupe oblique semblable a de la soie mouillee. | John Dos Passos | ||
| a3f76fa | Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible! Think of this new particular vintage of lies that has been so industriously pumped out of the press and the pulpit. Doesn't it stagger you? | John Dos Passos | ||
| 42825af | Aint no good place to look for a job, young feller. . . . There's jobs all right. . . . I'll be sixty-five years old in a month and four days an I've worked sence I was five I reckon, an I aint found a good job yet. | John dos Passos | ||
| c215dd7 | In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos | perspective | George F. Will | |
| 1134d4c | and you wondered if you'd be alive next time Halley's Comet came round | John Dos Passos | ||
| 266ea33 | you dont like the stars in Old Glory Then go back to your land across the sea To the land from which you came Whatever be its name | John dos Passos | ||
| 4529178 | When they were all up playing in the nursery George caught something again and had monia on account of getting cold on his chest and Yourfather was very solemn and said not to grieve if God called little brother away. But God brought little George back to them only he was delicate after that and had to wear glasses, and when Dearmother let Eveline help bathe him because Miss Mathilda was having the measles too Eveline noticed he had somethi.. | John Dos Passos | ||
| ac47de0 | If that was a real question, there wasn't time for me to answer because a very smartly dressed woman flared over and began talking to him, standing close with her fists on the hips of her slim-cut skirt, blocking him from view. This was Lillian Hellman, I would soon learn. She and Ernest and the others in the room made up the newly formed Contemporary Historians, a corporation bent on funding a documentary film that would help Spain acquire.. | Paula McLain | ||
| 465ce3f | in this country where an hour's train ride will take you from Siberian snow into African desert, unity of population is hardly to be expected. | John Dos Passos | ||
| fb79063 | While his bread remains sweet, his novels may be as bitter as he likes. | John Dos Passos |