{"quotes":[{"text":"Large Squares, 1965 -Last BeetleThe body is much the same as the previous model, aside from increase in window size all round. Door handles and lock mechanisms also changed as well as seat and dashboard designs. Chrome beading became thinner, mounting holes for these also smaller. Chrome was later replaced by black anodizing or plastic to try and modernize the Bug. Tail light clusters changed from the oval shape to the ‘headstone’ and then the ‘elephant’s foot’ jumbo units the bug saw its last days with. In 1965 new larger windows all round. 1966 saw the last 6v bug, and also the first 1300cc motor. Those horrible little air vents behind the rear side windows came out in 1971 that caused lots of rusty bugs. Sloping headlights looked much nicer but went out in 1967.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["1967","all","also","and","as","beading","beetle","bug","bugs","caused","chrome","clusters","days","designs","elephant-s","foot","for","headlights","holes","horrible","in","large","later","light","little","lock","looked","lots","motor","previous-model","replaced","round","seat","side","smaller","squares","the","thinner","to","try","window","windows","with"],"id":1295,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"It was not, however, to these Fascist groups, numerically unimportant as they were, that the Third Republic owed its collapse. On the contrary, the plain, if paradoxical, truth is that their influence was never so slight as at the moment when the collapse actually took place. What made France fall was the fact that she had no more true Dreyfusards, no one who believed that democracy and freedom, equality and justice could any longer be defended or realized under the republic.","author":"Hannah Arendt","tags":["1967","democracy","democracy-fails","dreyfus","fascism","french-republic","third-republic"],"id":27532,"author_id":"Hannah+Arendt"},{"text":"Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their simple faith and remove all basis for their hoping that things will be better—for the best way to destroy faith or hope is to let it be realized.","author":"Roger Zelazny","tags":["1967","faith","hope","magick","religion"],"id":35082,"author_id":"Roger+Zelazny"},{"text":"Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limitations to its economic expansion. The bourgeoisie turned to politics out of economic necessity; for if it did not want to give up the capitalist system whose inherent law is constant economic growth, it had to impose this law upon its home governments and to proclaim expansion to be an ultimate political goal of foreign policy.","author":"Hannah Arendt","tags":["1967","bourgeoisie","capitalism","constant-growth","foreign-policy","imperialism"],"id":52647,"author_id":"Hannah+Arendt"},{"text":"For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the 'riddles of the universe,' or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man. Few ideologies have won enough prominence to survive the hard competitive struggle of persuasion, and only two have come out on top and essentially defeated all others: the ideology which interprets history as an economic struggle of classes, and the other that interprets history as a natural fight of races. The appeal of both to large masses was so strong that they were able to enlist state support and establish themselves as official national doctrines. But far beyond the boundaries within which race-thinking and class-thinking have developed into obligatory patterns of thought, free public opinion has adopted them to such an extent that not only intellectuals but great masses of people will no longer accept a presentation of past or present facts that is not in agreement with either of these views.","author":"Hannah Arendt","tags":["1967","ideology","imperialism","marxism","nazism","opinion","race-theory","racism","socialism","totalitarianism"],"id":67627,"author_id":"Hannah+Arendt"},{"text":"THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that from then on Man, and not God's command or the customs of history, should be the source of Law. Independent of the privileges which history had bestowed upon certain strata of society or certain nations, the declaration indicated man's emancipation from all tutelage and announced that he had now come of age.Beyond this, there was another implication of which the framers of the declaration were only half aware. The proclamation of human rights was also meant to be a much-needed protection in the new era where individuals were no longer secure in the estates to which they were born or sure of their equality before God as Christians. In other words, in the new secularized and emancipated society, men were no longer sure of these social and human rights which until then had been outside the political order and guaranteed not by government and constitution, but by social, spiritual, and religious forces. Therefore throughout the nineteenth century, the consensus of opinion was that human rights had to be invoked whenever individuals needed protection against the new sovereignty of the state and the new arbitrariness of society.","author":"Hannah Arendt","tags":["1967","declaration-of-the-rights-of-man","human-rights","secular-state","totalitarianism"],"id":85095,"author_id":"Hannah+Arendt"},{"text":"The Vine of Life grows a single melon. The color of the heart is unknown until the rind is split.","author":"Jack Vance","tags":["1967","aphorism","navarth"],"id":109767,"author_id":"Jack+Vance"},{"text":"You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.","author":"Roger Zelazny","tags":["1967","battle","kali","perspective"],"id":139453,"author_id":"Roger+Zelazny"},{"text":"Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that it excluded a certain category of people even from the possibility of fighting for freedom—a fight possible under tyranny, and even under the desperate conditions of modern terror (but not under any conditions of concentration-camp life). Slavery's crime against humanity did not begin when one people defeated and enslaved its enemies (though of course this was bad enough), but when slavery became an institution in which some men were 'born' free and others slave, when it was forgotten that it was man who had deprived his fellow-men of freedom, and when the sanction for the crime was attributed to nature. Yet in the light of recent events it is possible to say that even slaves still belonged to some sort of human community; their labor was needed, used, and exploited, and this kept them within the pale of humanity. To be a slave was after all to have a distinctive character, a place in society—more than the abstract nakedness of beig human and nothing but human. Not the loss of specific rights, then, but the loss of a community willing and able to guarantee any rights whatsoever, has been the calamity which has befallen ever-increasing numbers of people. Man, it turns out, can lose all so-called Rights of Man without losing his essential quality as man, his human dignity. Only the loss of a polity itself expels him from humanity.","author":"Hannah Arendt","tags":["1967","concentration-camps","crimes-against-humanity","human-rights","humanity","rights-of-man","slavery"],"id":159320,"author_id":"Hannah+Arendt"},{"text":"He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy.","author":"Roger Zelazny","tags":["1967","cursing","irony","swear-words","swearing"],"id":278615,"author_id":"Roger+Zelazny"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}