Roy Harper quotes

In some ways, I lament the introduction of civilisation on such a huge scale, because it has given us a lot of room to abuse each other, which we continue to do.
-- Roy Harper

#Abuse #Way #Rooms

What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.
-- Roy Harper

#Wicked #Height #Hearing

I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.
-- Roy Harper

#Giving #Inspired #Poet

Id just like to prove to myself that Im all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. Id also like to prove that to a couple of other people.
-- Roy Harper

#Couple #People #Together

I regret that I've never actually managed to be inspired enough to get into anything else, and I should've been, I really should have been, because the piano can be a wonderful instrument. But I'm afraid that my inspiration is just purely on the words... and it's gonna stay there.
-- Roy Harper

#Regret #Inspiration #Should Have

I got into trad jazz, then modern jazz, then avant-garde jazz, between the ages of 16 to 18.
-- Roy Harper

#Age #Avant Garde #Jazz

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable.

Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.

With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.