Two quotes I have to share with you

[ThomWV]

Over the course of the last week I've been reading some old essays that I'm going to say something about later after I've finished reading the full collection, but for now there are two passages I've run across that I really wanted to share with you all. The first is an ominous warning and the second give timeless explanation. Here they are.

"while 'my lord' is lolling in bed, with four liveried
footmen serving his chocolate and the peasants starving outside,
somewhere in the forest a tree is growing which will presently be sawn
into planks for the platform of the guillotine"


and then this one


"The class (Name Removed) belonged to, at least by adoption, was growing
suddenly rich after a couple of centuries of obscurity. It had grown up
mainly in the big towns, out of contact with agriculture, and politically
impotent; government, in its experience, was something which either
interfered or persecuted. Consequently it was a class with no tradition
of public service and not much tradition of usefulness. What now strikes
us as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is
their complete irresponsibility; they see everything in terms of
individual success, with hardly any consciousness that the community
exists."

[gimama]

1. Nice..!

profound..& appropo, today.
Some small comfort that history recycles.
thanks, Thomas!:hi:

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. You KNOW I want the title of those essays, don't you?

[ChicagoSuz219]

5. And, the authors... n/t

[ThomWV]

7. For you both - 1 Author (Orwell) and 1 Essay (titled "Charles Dickens")

Here is a link to the essay:
http://www.george-orwell.org/Charles_Dickens/0.html

[ChicagoSuz219]

14. Thanks! it would've bugged me... ;-) n/t

[truedelphi]

3. Bravo for those.

Hope you keep them coming.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

Denis Diderot

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Anarchist !!!

I'm telling the DU Corps of Politically Correct Thought on you.:hippie:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. Busted.

[Codeine]

6. Isn't the first one Dickens? nt

[ThomWV]

8. Yes

http://www.george-orwell.org/Charles_Dickens/0.html

[Powerdot16]

10. Well done

It resonates as relates to today's well-dressed barbarians.

[salguine]

11. Attributed to...?

[ThomWV]

12. See replies 7 and 8, each includes a link.

[LiberalAndProud]

13. "with hardly any consciousness that the community exists"

Yes! That is exactly the sense I have of the bloviating blowhard RepubliCons who speak for the Republican party. Rush, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc., etc. Exactly no consciousness of community.