"It is easy to see that a..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.”

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

“A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.”

“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”

“Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.”

“To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from.”

“The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.”

“I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.”

“A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.”