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In many ways their long history with prison authorities led them to expect betrayal and so, even as they waited for negotiations to recommence, the men also devoted considerable time that day to constructing barricades at various doors in the yard as well as on the catwalks above.

Ten minutes after the collapse of A Block gate at Times Square, the prison alarm whistle finally sounded. Until that point, most of the 116 correction officers and 78 civilian employees who were on shift at Attica had no clue that all hell had broken loose at the very epicenter of the prison.

The new faith is that the truth must lie not with a doctrine that take the maximisation of aggregate or average general welfare for its goal, but with a doctrine of basic human rights, protecting specific basic liberties and interests of individuals...

There are values other than freedom, such as charity, justice, self-realisation, and it is to obstruct, indeed subvert, the task of moral valuation and intelligent political action to subsume all of these indisputable goods under that single rubric, freedom. Surely, this is right: the good of freedom can best be served by seeing it sharply for what it is: the absence, or removal, of restraints of choice.

‘I have no idea.’ What he does know is this: A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN LISARH HAVE BEEN FALSELY IMPLICATED…THE PEOPLE IN THE ADMINISTRATION SAID THEY ARE UNDER POLITICAL PRESSURE TO TAKE ONE-SIDED ACTION…MUSLIMS WORK FOR THEM SO THEY WILL LISTEN TO MUSLIMS.

There is little doubt in our minds that much of what we have just heard is bullshit, and what journalist does not like the smell of bullshit if it can be shown to be just that?

The man with the most authority amongst them, the five-time chief, has outlined an alternative version of events that I’ll wager they’ve heard before. Because retellings have their uses. They serve as a reminder that individual recollections must give way to what can be asserted as the collective truth.

...if you generate a crowd of aggrieved people...in the tens of thousands, you better have something to say. If the best you can do is appeal to its higher sentiments, you won’t be standing on the dais for long. Does a crowd develop its own consciousness as it begins to sense its leadership’s inability to articulate what should be done? Who speaks for the crowd then, or does the crowd start to speak for itself?

Die Gallier dachten also, daß die Seele eines Toten in einem anderen Körper wiedergeboren würde. Für Caesar war dieser Glaube and die Wiedergeburt nicht sehr günstig. Denn dadurch hatten die Gallier ja überhaupt keine Angst vor dem Tod und stürzten sich voller Hingabe in den Kampf gegen die Römer.

Ammianus Marcellinus, ein Autor aus dem vierten Jahrhundert nach Christus, erzählt, daß keltische Frauen noch besser treten und schlagen könnten als Männer und daß es einer Gruppe Fremder nicht zu raten sei, es mit einem Kelten aufzunehmen, wenn dieser seine Ehefrau dabei habe.

His ability to catch the allegiances and the emotional tone of the authors he has written about, as well as his ability to meet the commentator’s first duty to the subtleties of their thought, has always meant that their personalities and ideas alike have remained intact and alive.

Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters.

I am only resolved to act in that manner which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

Caesar verstand es immer wieder, aus gewöhnlichen Männern rücksichtslose Kampfmaschinen zu machen, denen nichts entgegenzusetzen war…In den Asterix-Erzählungen sucht der Leser vergeblich diesen Typ des römischen Soldaten. Es gibt schon Zenturionen…wie dieser…aber in der Praxis des Kampfgeschehens ziehen die immer den kürzeren.

Detection could not be in your power, and suspicion certainly not in your inclination.

The Lucases are very artful people indeed, sister. They are all for what they can get. I am sorry to say it of them, but so it is. It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbors who think of themselves before anybody else.

Then death came for her. She suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Edith writes in her memoir: ‘She was never more herself that on the last morning of her life—the morning on April 24, 1947. Her spirit was as high, her grasp of reality as firm as always. And she had kept that warmth of heart, that youthful, fiery generosity which life so often burns out.’

To Will Owen Jones, editor of the Nebraska State Journal, she wrote words the wisdom of which any maturing writer will harken to: ‘As one grows older one cares less about clever writing and more about a simple and faithful representation. But to reach this, one must have gone through the period where one would die, so to speak, for the fine phrase; that is essential to learning one’s business.’

...her disobliging account of a production of Lohengrin [in] Pittsburgh...: ‘Frau Gadski who sings Elsa has a very powerful soprano voice and by some strange mischance was not afflicted with a cold. But dramatically she is totally incompetent and unsatisfactory. To begin with she is enormous in size. Her weight is simply preposterous…Why is it that all Elsas must be robust and matronly and weary to the eye?’

Mr. Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society; the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father; and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance.

Versuch sich Anzupassen

Ich soll mich drein fügen
und nicht fragen
warum ich das soll
und ich soll nicht fragen
warum ich nicht fragen soll

Attempt to Conform

I must accept things
and must not ask
why I must
and must not ask
why I must not ask

The Enemies

Those already torn apart by life
who still take care
to know no answer
to unasked questions

and spend
the rest of their lives
hymning
their unlived lives

Those who may be also ready
to give their lives
not to have to see
what they live for and against

and who still hope for tomorrow
without knowing about yesterday and
open to every lie and deception
these are my brothers and sisters

Most Americans today agree that it is morally right to treat all people as equal, to recognize their ultimate political authority, and to give them a more direct role in shaping their government and choosing their leaders than many of Wilson’s peers desired. For those of us alive in the twenty-first century, this is the essence of representative democracy—and Wilson was there from the start.

Linking the Declaration and the Constitution was something Wilson would persist in doing through the rest of his life, and to a degree unmatched by any of his peers. To him, the documents were inseparable. Both were based on the power of the people to decide their own fate.

Die Tragödie ist feierlich – darum verdienen wir sie nicht mehr. Sie liegt uns aber in der Sehnsucht, darum muß sie anklingen in der Kunst, muß zugelassen werden in ihr Gericht hinein. Dieses Gericht heißt Entthronung, heißt Entlarvung und neue Setzung dessen, was wir an ihrer Stelle finden können: Tapferkeit statt Heldentum.

Dichtung geht hier feindlich an gegen den Gedanken, ist das durchaus Andere, ist Kampf gegen den Gedanken; eine wütende Abrechnung, die nicht aufgeht…Vor solcher Prosa begreift man die Heilkraft, die rettende Macht des Theaters, wo fremder Leib sich der Sprache entgegenstellt und sie zwingt, ihm Red und Antwort zu stehen.

Wir haben uns gewöhnt an seine Ungewöhnlichkeit, wir haben seinen Stil weitgehend angenommen, ergriffen, begriffen.

For Wilson, it was always about the big picture—a functional government had to be founded on proper principles, or it would not survive...‘We are laying the foundation of a building, which is to last ages, and in which millions are interested,’ he said. ‘In laying the stone amiss we may injure the superstructure; and what will be the consequence if the cornerstone should be loosely placed?’

…he fought to include key features in the US Constitution—like meaningful checks on the legislature and an independent judiciary…To him, a true separation of powers with checks and balances was the only reliable guard against abuse. As he wrote in the closing lines of the Republican Society letter, ‘Trust not us—trust no man—trust no body of men with uncontrolled power.’