When The House Of A Great One

Who Built The Seven Gates Of Thebes? In The Books Are Listed The Names Of Kings. Did The Kings Heave Up The Building Blocks?

There Are Men Who Struggle For A Day And They Are Good. There Are Men Who Struggle For A Year And They Are Better. There Are Men Who Struggle Many Years, And They Are Better Still. But There Are Those Who Struggle All Their Lives: These Are The Indispensable Ones.

The First Time It Was Reported That Our Friends Were Being Butchered There Was A Cry Of Horror. Then A Hundred Were Butchered. But When A Thousand Were Butchered And There Was No End To The Butchery, A Blanket Of Silence Spread. When Evil-doing Comes Like Falling Rain, Nobody Calls Out "stop!" When Crimes Begin To Pile Up They Become Invisible. When Sufferings Become Unendurable The Cries Are No Longer Heard. The Cries, Too, Fall Like Rain In Summer.

For Art To Be 'unpolitical' Means Only To Ally Itself With The 'ruling' Group.

Then I Will Tell You Something. I Do Not Believe In It. Forty Years Among Men Has Consistently Taught Me That They Are Not Amenable To Commonsense. Show Them The Red Tail Of A Comet, Fill Them With Black Terror, And They Will All Come Running Out Of Their Houses And Break Their Legs. But Tell Them One Sensible Proposition, And Support It With Seven Reasons, And They Will Simply Laugh In Your Face.