Ditch Quotes

“I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.”

“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”

“The whole world," he said, "is going Radical again. Fundamentally. In religion. In politics. In law. The Common Man has been trying to get his Radicalism said and done plainly and clearly for a hundred and fifty years. Now we take it on. Our movement. The new wave of attack." "And fill a ditch in our turn," said Irwell. "Maybe we're over the last ditch," said Rud. "There must be a last ditch somewhere..."All other revolutionary movements have been experiments so far, Christianity, the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and more or less failures. They were experiments in liberation and they did not liberate. The old things wriggled back. But ours may be the experiment that succeeds. We may get to the Common-sense World State. Yes -- we -- in this room...Why not? It has to come somehow, somewhen... If it doesn't come pretty soon, there won't be much of humanity left to liberate.”

“You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.'No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism'.”

“It's healthy to ditch class now and then." To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would be spilt.”

“Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.”

“To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas.”

“It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit,’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.”

“…Man’s heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink.” - The Narrator.”

“Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.”