Speaker for the Diodes

QotD

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-05-01:

"Rebellion is a substitute for inner peace. It gives meaning and purpose to life so long as the object of the rebellion remains in power, because that object is seen as the cause of one's discontent: but once the authority disintegrates it becomes necessary to seek more deeply - and as we searched more deeply, we discovered that the source of our inner discontent was not Art, but our own gluttony, our own sloth, our own anger, our own lust, our own avarice, our own envy, our own vanity. Particularly our vanity; and so when we looked over to Art sipping his tea in that peaceful, meditative way of his, we too began to reach for the tea pot and emulate him once again." - George Grinnell, A Death on the Barrens

(submitted to the mailing list by Kathleen Magone)