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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

-- Emiliano Zapata

Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

-- Frank Zappa

Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press, and this pictorial account of the day-to-day life of an English gamekeeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant-raising, the apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties of the professional gamekeeper. Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour those sidelights on the management of a midland shooting estate, and in this reviewer's opinion the book cannot take the place of J. R. Miller's Practical Gamekeeping.

-- Ed Zern, Field and Stream, November 1959

When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.

-- Philip Zimmermann

The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.

-- Slavoj Zizek

Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....

-- Carl Zwanzig