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...social revolutionary. I became convinced that necessary change in our society requires more change in the nature of people than a social revolution can generate. It seemed most imperative that we directly change ourselves and our way of living; that we create the new life, rather than try to attain...
...looked at New York and "suddenly it seemed as if the city had gotten smaller or I had gotten bigger." The whole idea of scale started him thinking about monuments, and so he drew them. Not monuments in the usual sense of statues or obelisks, they were things that attain monumentality through constant use: a toilet float that rises and falls with the tide on the Thames River in London, a gigantic pair of scissors to replace the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., a huge windshield wiper for Grant Park in Chicago, a melting Good Humor bar to replace...
...What a horrific background and path to tread to attain world infamy. His mother the worst kind of thief, stealing guns so others could kill. A father who defected and was a traitor to the French government for which he worked. Ho, a hard man who literally butchered his way to leadership-an opportunist who rode every horse as long as it suited his purpose...
...movement for social change, violence is justified only as a last resort. Even in extreme circumstances, violent tactics are tolerable only when they aim at welldefined political ends and employ the minimum force needed to attain those objectives. By either of these criteria, yesterday's invasion of the Center for International Affairs must be judged a savage and infantile exercise in terrorism...
...description; but what we feel, surmise but will never reach, the intransitory behind all appearance, is indescribable. And what is it? Christ calls this "eternal blessedness," and I cannot do better than employ this beautiful and sufficient mythology-the most complete conception to which it is possible to attain...