Quotes 4317
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We dont stop these atrocities because we dont talk about them. We dont talk about them because we dont think about them. We dont think about them because theyre too horrific to comprehend. As trauma expert Judith Herman writes, The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. - Derrick Jensen
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
- Martha Graham
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I don't want loyalty. I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.
- LBJ speaking of a propsective assistant
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I think society is one of the greatest impediments an artist can possibly have. When I was young and needed help, society wouldn't give it, because it had no confidence in what I was doing. But when, through my perseverance society took an interest, then it wanted me not to do the next thing, but to repeat what I had done before. At every point society acts to keep you from doing what you have to do. -- John Cage
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The very existence of the state demands that there be some privileged class vitally interested in maintaining that existence. And it is precisely the group interests of that class that are called patriotism.
- Michael Bakunin
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If the world were merely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
- E. B. White
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Sure, we were young. We were arrogant. We were ridiculous. There were excesses. We were brash. We were foolish. We had factional fights. But we were right.
- Abbie Hoffman
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
- Christopher Morley
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The devil never comes offering you something evil. The devil comes offering you a larger audience - Murray Kempton
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We dont stop these atrocities because we dont talk about them. We dont talk about them because we dont think about them. We dont think about them because theyre too horrific to comprehend. As trauma expert Judith Herman writes, The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. - Derrick Jensen
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
- Martha Graham
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I don't want loyalty. I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.
- LBJ speaking of a propsective assistant
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I think society is one of the greatest impediments an artist can possibly have. When I was young and needed help, society wouldn't give it, because it had no confidence in what I was doing. But when, through my perseverance society took an interest, then it wanted me not to do the next thing, but to repeat what I had done before. At every point society acts to keep you from doing what you have to do. -- John Cage
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The very existence of the state demands that there be some privileged class vitally interested in maintaining that existence. And it is precisely the group interests of that class that are called patriotism.
- Michael Bakunin
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If the world were merely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
- E. B. White
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Sure, we were young. We were arrogant. We were ridiculous. There were excesses. We were brash. We were foolish. We had factional fights. But we were right.
- Abbie Hoffman
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
- Christopher Morley
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The devil never comes offering you something evil. The devil comes offering you a larger audience - Murray Kempton
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