O take heart, my brothers. Even now... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her - Even now, O even now, my brothers, Life is in no danger of losing the argument! - For after all .... (as will be shown) She has only to change the subject.
Interpretation
The quote encourages resilience, suggesting that despite challenges, life ultimately prevails.
Kenneth Patchen's quote speaks to the enduring strength of life, even in the face of overwhelming opposition from leaders and resources across the globe. It emphasizes that when confronted with adversity, life has the power to redirect focus and change the narrative, ensuring that it continues to thrive despite challenges.
In practice
This quote can be used to inspire a friend who's facing tough times.
Why has time disappeared in our culture? How is it that after decades of inventions and new technologies devoted to saving time and labor, the result is that there is no time left? We are a time-poor society; we are temporally impoverished. And there is no issue, no aspect of human life, that exceeds this in importance. The destruction of time is literally the destruction of life.
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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