Ruling – Page 38 – Everything

Ruling

In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?

Jan 152014
 

The revolutionary is nine parts hatred and envy of the oppressor, and one part sympathy and love for the oppressed.

Jan 132014
 

Revolutions spare nothing but the machinery of the state at which they are ostensibly directed.

Dec 252013
 

Constant surveillance is the vocation of the police and the avocation of everyone else.

Dec 092013
 

Yesterday the great enemy of democracy was distinction of birth; today it is distinction of wealth; tomorrow it will be distinction.

Nov 282013
 

To be powerful relieves one of the obligation to be interesting.

Nov 012013
 

Nobody says “it’s the law” about a good law.