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Ramon edited the memorable quotes of The Octopus Monday, November 14, 2011.
- Added a quotation: “In that little, isolated group of human insects, misery, death, and anguish spun like a wheel of fire. But the Wheat remained. Untouched, unassailable, undefiled, that might world-force, that nourisher of nations, wrapped in Nirvanic calm, indifferent to the human swarm, gigantic, resistless, moved onward in its appointed grooves. Through the weiter of blood at the irrigating ditch, through the sham charity and shallow philanthropy of famine-relief committees, the great harvest of Los Muertos rolled like a flood from the Sierras to the Himalayas to feed thousands of starving scarecrows on the barren plains of India.”Presley
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Ramon edited the memorable quotes of The Octopus Monday, November 14, 2011.
- Added a quotation: ““Believe this, young man,” exclaimed Sheigrim, laying a thick powerful forefinger on the table to emphasize his words, “try to believe this—to begin with—that railroads build themselves. Where there is a demand sooner or later there will be supply. Mr. Derrick, does he grow his wheat? The Wheat grows itself. What does he count for? Does he supply the force? What do I count for? Do I build the Railroad? You are dealing with forces young man. There is the Wheat, the supply. It must be carried to feed the People. There is the demand. The Wheat is one force, the Railroad, another, and there is the law that governs them—supply and demand. Men have only little to do in the whole business. Complications may arise, conditions that bear hard on the individual—crush him maybe—but the Wheat will be carried to feed the people as inevitably as it will grow. If you want to fasten the blame of the affair at Los Muertos on any one person, you will make a mistake. Blame conditions, not men.””Sheigrim, Director of the Railroad
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