The judge during the 1963 obscenity trial of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover:

 

         “I would ask the jury whether they would want their servants to read this book.”

 

An overrated book really, like with most moral panics. I do think that Sons and Lovers justifies all the fuss made over D.H. Lawrence, but if you really like to see Englishmen having sex above their station, read The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley. ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")  Made into a good movie too, but of course not as good as the book.

Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.

 

                                                           Alastair Reid

An African soldier who comes to Europe, has shot or bayoneted white men, and who has had sexual relations with white women, might loose his belief in the superiority of the whites.

     — British journalist Edmond D. Morel, The Great Class War 1914-1918, Jacques R. Pauwels, p.470.

"Never break a sweat after 60."

 

          — my mother-in-law, who lost a husband and a brother to the tennis courts and recently died at nearly 101.

Never join a plan that ends with "And then the people will rise up and support us!"

 

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/29/cops-vigilantes-and-the-ruling-class/

The first person to promote violence is always the cop.