Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in asylums. Pack off old ones to 'senior communities, ' nursing homes. Our children? Keep'em prisoner, baby-sitter as warden. School? Good for fifteen to twenty years. Army afterward. Liberated, we live in prison. No this, no that. Kill us before we die! John Cage
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  2. We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing - Thucydides
  3. Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? - Douglas Adams
  4. I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. - Matt Groening
  5. I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire. - Ilona Andrews
More Quotes By John Cage
  1. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
  2. There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
  3. Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.
  4. All great art is a form of complaint
  5. Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living
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