USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
EZRA POUNDDemocracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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