Als / Than Andere / Others Ausgezeichnet / Excellent Excel Hätten / Had Herrschaft / Dominion Leistung / Power Lieber / Rather Umfang / Extent Wissen / Knowledge
I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
