Famous Beat Generation Quotes & Sayings

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell. — Randy Alcorn

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God. — Saint Ignatius

I cannot sit and think; books think for me. — Charles Lamb

I can just say exactly what happened. — Jose Canseco

He who loves his job, will own it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

rebels captured that base and — Joel C. Rosenberg

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. — Walter Benjamin

Lo and behold! God made this starry wold, The maggot and the mold; lo and behold! He taught the grass contentment blade by blade, The sanctity of sameness in a shade. — Nathalia Crane

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer. — George Zimmerman