Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...
Barry UnsworthThe heart is a vital organ, but it is a faulty guide to conduct. It is the mind makes judgements and comparisons, furnishes evidence on which ideas of truth can be founded.
Barry UnsworthNo latitude makes any difference to what men will do to other men, whether for gain or in the name of justice.
Barry UnsworthThose confiding their pain cannot know at the outset how much they will be required to relive it.
Barry UnsworthBut that sacred hunger we spoke of justifies all.
Barry UnsworthThe kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now than another aspect of that ancient urge - much older than the desire for truth - to command attention, dominate one's fellows.
Barry UnsworthThe flood of cheap manufactures, for which the people have no need,destroys their industries. They become dependent on this trade and the demand for goods can only be met by enslaving their fellows.
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It is everyone's bounden duty to try to get more than they have got already. If you have got two shillin' you try to make it into four shillin' . . . there is no end to it.
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The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .
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Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way
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