Jack Parsons Quotes

• Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again

  Jack Parsons

  Irrational

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• Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve their slavery. A tyrant does not make his tyranny possible. It is made by the people and not otherwise.

  Jack Parsons

  Names, Tyrants, People

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• I hight don Quixote, I live on peyote,
  marijuana, morphine and cocaine.
  I never know sadness, but only a madness
  that burns at the heart and the brain.
  I see each charwoman, ecstatic, inhuman,
  angelic, demonic, divine.
  Each wagon a dragon, each beer mug a flagon
  that brims with ambrosial wine.

  Jack Parsons

  Heart, Wine, Sadness

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• [C]ensorship in any form is the opening wedge for fascism, since it places arbitrary and unwarranted power in the hands of individuals.

  Jack Parsons

  Freedom, Power, Hands

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• Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.

  Jack Parsons

  Dark, Men, Abuse

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• I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

  Jack Parsons

  Coward, Add, Needs

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