"Here we must distinguish between society and culture. A society can be interested in a man or woman only as a political or economic entity; a culture is interested in more. Culture means literally "to cultivate" or "to care for." Cultures care for their peoples as natural, spiritual beings and not simply as workers or consumers."

-- Laurence Boldt

#Spiritual Quotes #Mean Quotes #Men Quotes

“My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them (the framers of the Constitution) to speak the language of 'We, the People,' instead of 'We, the States'?”
“I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.”
“Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.”
“Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.”
“It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.”
“If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.”
“The parry is wrong." - Drizzt Do'Urden”

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