Beaubois Rodrigue Quotes

#1. Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.

Dan Piraro

#3. The conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors] ... to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.

Richard M. Rorty

#4. Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. He and I had always felt as if we were fellow survivors from some vanishing age or land, in the gibbering swamp of mediocrity around us.

Ayn Rand

#6. Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

Arthur Erickson