Propertarians Quotes

#1. I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don't have to learn."
Vokep shook his head grimly. "It's the kids," he said. "Having babies. Makes 'em propertarians. They won't let go." He sighed. "Touch and go, brother, that's the rule. Don't ever let yourself be owned.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. We have created crime, just as the propertarians did. We force a man outside the sphere of our approval, and then condemn him for it. We've made laws, laws of conventional behavior, built walls all around ourselves, and we can't see them, because they're part of our thinking.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#3. You spend a whole life of non-interference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody bothers you and you cut along and make it your own way.

Jack Kerouac

#4. The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.

Eleanor Antin

#5. Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#6. I want to be remembered as a guy who's not going to change your life but who is going to change your mood. As a guy who made you smile and say, "I miss him. He was a lot of fun."

Marlon Wayans

#7. Religion provides the solace for the turmoil that it creates.

Byron Danelius

#8. HECKLER: Say something funny!
COMEDIAN: I don't do requests.

J. Ross Clara

#9. I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

Vivienne Westwood

#10. Those professions which are not so much involved in life itself as concerned with abstract truths are the most dangerous for the young man whose principles are not yet firm and whose convictions are not yet strong and unshakeable.

Karl Marx

#11. Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

John Darnielle

#12. I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#13. We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

Silvia Cartwright

#14. Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots, Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup,

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#15. Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work.

Eugene H. Peterson