May Sarton Quotes

The best picture I can give of the French Nation, is that of Cattle before a Thunder Storm.

…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

It was a bad looking mob. It was animated by the essence of revolution.

Nothing endurable can be produced on a soil soaked with blood and moved by violent agitations.

Terror is the order of the day.

Americans have always understood the danger of mobs. They are always dangerous; they are always demonic.

We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

I am freedom and I will eat your heart

All hell broke loose.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.

Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids.

We've created a more dangerous world. We've created more violence. We've unraveled the fabric of our own society. We've watched everything get worse. We've watched countries be destroyed, and we've watched war become the answer to every question.

Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick.

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.

Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness