J. V. Cunningham quotes

“This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.”
-- J. V. Cunningham

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“The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.”
-- J. V. Cunningham

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“The writer asks himself, 'Can I think of a plot that will parallel this? Can I take this work of literature as an example of something I might produce?' Let us, then, consider literature as a productive science.”
-- J. V. Cunningham

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“What demon is our god? What name subsumes That act external to our sleeping selves? Not pleasure it is much too broad and narrow , Not sex, not for the moment love, but pride, And not in prowess, but pride undefined, Autonomous in its unthought demands, A bit of vanity, but mostly pride.”
-- J. V. Cunningham

Source : "In a Few Days Now When Two Memories Meet (1964)". "Poems Of J.V. Cunningham". Book edited by Timothy Steele, 1997.

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“I like the trivial, vulgar and exalted.”
-- J. V. Cunningham

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“Naked I came, naked I leave the scene”
-- J. V. Cunningham

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“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

“Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?”

“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE

“I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.”

“Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.”

“I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness... their 'disability.' And I'm certain we all have one, because I think of a disability as being anything which undermines our belief and confidence in our own abilities.”

“If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition.”

“I want everyone to vote. I want everyone to be a part of electing officials. Because when we are not a part, when we don't have a very broad voter base, then we don't have true representation.”

“He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human .”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

“Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.”