Ed Case Quotes

To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.

You want freedom and they give you chicken korma.

Mr. Cupples came out of his reverie. "I think, " he said, "I will have milk and soda-water." "Speak lower!" urged Trent. "The head-waiter has a weak heart, and he might hear you.

..I marvelled at the intense beauty of this human relationship that was born out of so much love and was destined, perhaps inevitably, to end in a tragedy of such terrible proportions.

Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of.

We stand at a crossroads. Do we choose 'the will to power' or 'the will to humanity, ' or perhaps a new configuration of both: the power of humanity?

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Rachel hadn’t invented the dangers of toxoplasmosis

We need people who dive deep, dream and dare do. We need people able to grasp the sublime and, therefore, that which is universally true for all. We need them to reclaim our humanity.

I think children want to believe that they can be heroes too.

she should have told me that times slides away on a hillside of lose shale and takes everything in its path-dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.

The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.

But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons.

Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.

She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel.

To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.

either on a competitive or a cartel basis.

Education is what they equip you with

Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.

Call me crotchety, but I didn’t like being bossed around, especially before I’d injected caffeine into my system. Violet Parker

The most futile cry of man is his impossible wish to be understood

It is not for me to suspect but to detect.

A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement.”~Sherlock Holmes

Watson fully comprehended the fact that occasionally it is useful for one’s adversaries to underestimate one’s abilities.”~Sherlock Holmes

Suddenly the images in the center of the room became more than images. They solidified.

I’m not ‘stubborn.’”“Oh, really?”Lifting my chin, I said, “I’m determined.” (Violet to Doc)

It all began with a bucket of eggs.

Humankind is but the pieces in a game, plastic soldiers waging war between boy gods.

How doe we define the energy of thought versus the energy of action.

If moral truths do not exist as a foundation for law, then law itself becomes merely a system of raw political power accountable to no one.

Every child should be read to.

My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.

How can you introduce error into the Bible? Have a human open it. The moment he reads it, the Bible because weighted down with his biases and expectations.

Before we apply Joshua to our lives, we need to make sure which side of the Jordan we are living on. Militarism invites God's wrath.

I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to their lives.

I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life.

...what argument is left with someone you love if she is willing to break your heart?

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

The claim 'God does not exist' is just as much a claim to know something as saying 'God does exist, ' meaning the atheist needs just as much substantiation for his claim as the theist does for his.

The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.

You are meant to lose the people you love. How else would you know how important they are to you?

An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.

It was almost romantic, in a mad-inventor sort of way.

I was between them, and as the tension sparked, I felt like a small rodent trapped between mastodons.

He (Daedalus) would follow that bearing, the sun on his shoulders and the past slipping away.