The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0961328940 ISBN 13: 9780961328948

Publisher: See Sharp Pr, 1992

Synopsis

This oversize book contains thousands of quotations on politics, sex, law, labor, capitalism, anarchism, women, religion, the arts, and 20 other subjects. Organized in chapters by subject, this book also contains an index, capsule biographies, and dozens of cartoons and illustrations. Hundreds of writers are represented, including Bakunin, Mencken, the Marxes, (Groucho and Karl), Twain, Reich, Voltaire, Shaw, Chomsky, Diderot, Bookchin, Goldman, Berkman, Paine, Kroptkin, and Bierce.

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Review

"A timeless collection, this book should be on the selves of every self-respecting radical." --Freedom Fortnightly
"Enormous fun to dip into...I enjoyed the book enormously." --David Bouchier, Social Anarchism
"A far-reaching collection of timeless, provocative, politically astute quotations.... It is fun, informative, and more." --Z Magazine

From the Publisher

Description of the Book and a Few Quotations from It
This large book contains thousands of quotations on politics, sex, religion, government, labor, capitalism, women, the arts, militarism, and 20 other subjects. Organized in chapters by subject, this book also contains capsule biographies and dozens of cartoons and illustrations. Hundreds of writers are represented, including the Marxes (Groucho & Karl), Mark Twain, Wilhelm Reich, Mikhail Bakunin, H.L. Mencken, Noam Chomsky, Emma Goldman, Tom Paine, Voltaire, Ambrose Bierce, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

Here are a few sample quotations:

"CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." --Ambrose Bierce

"The people have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take." --Emma Goldman

"War is the health of the state." --Randolph Bourne

"This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it." --Al Capone

"For the right amount of money, you're willing to eat Alpo." --Reggie Jackson

"The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag since the end of the Middle Ages." --H.L. Mencken

"I think we could put Adolph Hitler in center field and fans would cheer for him if he hit .350." --George Steinbrenner

"If you wanted to get America destroyed, if you were a malevolent, evil force and you said 'How can I turn God against America? What can I do to get God mad at the people of America to cause this great land to vomit out the people?' Well, I'd pick five things. I'd begin to have incest, I'd begin to commit adultery wherever possible, all over the country, and sexuality. I'd begin to have them offering up and killing their babies. I'd get them having homosexual relations, and then I'd have them having sex with animals." --Rev. Pat Robertson

"That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly *broken*--such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to *impudence*, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its *triumph* to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity." --Friedrich Nietzsche

Edition details

• Publisher: See Sharp Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0961328940
• ISBN 13: 9780961328948
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Bufe Charles