Quotes
Authors
James Stone
"Free enterprise democracy has proven the best system by far for maximizing freedom, prosperity, and happiness. Dictatorship, Soviet style communism, and hereditary aristocracy have proven about the worst environments for people to achieve all three of these goals." --
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James Stone
#People Quotes
#Goal Quotes
#Style Quotes
“If you choose to lead your life just like everyone else, then what exactly is it that you have to offer?”
“Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.”
“The world as dreamed and the world as lived cross-pollinate each other.”
“Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .”
“Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?”
“As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.”
Source : "Making Music in the Anthropocene". www.slate.com. February 24, 2015.
“I want my wife to wake me up with a sweet kiss”
“You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.”
