Sandra Alcosser famous quotes

Poetry calls into question what it means to be human
-- Sandra Alcosser

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The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.

The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

People have become educated, but have not become human.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.