"Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless."

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Elias Canetti

#Home Quotes #Heartless Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.”
“Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.”

Source : Michael Langford (2000). “Basic Photography”, p.7, Taylor & Francis
“There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.”

Source : "David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream". Interview With Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2012.
“The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program,”
“The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.”

Source : Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan
“Where do consequences lead? Depends on the escort.”
“I've got to love the souls of people. Because I can't love every incarnation. To love their souls, I have to identify with my own soul.”
“If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.”

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