soggy-minded

Updated: May 4, 2025

It is as soggy-minded, thoughtless and automatic to be a revolutionist to-day as it is to be a Louis XVI. It takes originality to construct and to change things and change the hearts and minds of people and the spirit of a nation. Anybody can be a revolutionist or a reactionary. All one has to do is to stop thinking and sag, or stop thinking and slash.

Gerald Stanley Lee - The Ghost in the White House : Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want