"I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos."

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Source : Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

Kenneth Clark

#Hurt Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Believe Quotes

“I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.”
“My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.”
“That's the main business of the poem!-to see if you can't make up a language that sets all your selves talking at once-all of them being fair to each other.”
“For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among them) and that fame is transitory, the manner in whichâ€”by means of a sort of snapshotâ€”we take cognisance of this moving universe whirled along by Time, has the contrary effect of immobilising it.”
“He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.”
“I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.”
“All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.”
“For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.”

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