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John Howard Lawson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.”
-- John Howard Lawson

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“I feel like a man who has had truckloads of filth heaped upon him; I am now asked to struggle to my feet and talk while more truckloads pour more filth around my head.”
-- John Howard Lawson

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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
“Could man be drunk for ever Â Â Â With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning Â Â Â And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober Â Â Â And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Â Â Â Their hands upon their hearts.”
“Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.”
“White in the moon the long road lies.”
“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.”
“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
“I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.”
“Freedom of speech implies the world isnâ€™t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.”
“Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.”

John Howard Lawson quotes

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