"Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert."

-- Roger Scruton

#Spiritual Quotes #Needs Quotes #Desert Quotes

“Promising a revolution thatâ€™s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasnâ€™t happened.”
“Geographically speaking, I was born on a French island - the Ã®le d'OlÃ©ron. Otherwise, I come from a milieu where culture was of the utmost importance. I learned music even before I learned to read. I always read books beyond my years.”
“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

Source : Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.330, Penguin Books India
“There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

Source : Sit-in Address on the Steps of Sproul Hall, delivered 2 December 1964, The University of California at Berkeley
“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.”

Source : "Man Ray: Photographer". Interview with Philippe Sers in Camera, 1981.
“A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.”
“Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ***** girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.”
“It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.”

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