"The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power."

--

John Podhoretz

#Views Quotes #People Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life of the country ... That this many young people could assemble so peaceably and with such good humor in a mile-square area ... speaks volumes about their dedication to the ideal of respect for the dignity of the individual ... In a nation beset with a crescendo of violence, this is a vibrantly hopeful sign. If violence is infectious, so, happily, is nonviolence.”
“My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute force.â€â€¢ General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha on German South West Africa â€œAt the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction, it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
“Love For All; Hatred for None”
“Some people never get their feet on the ground, They're either sitting in a chair or theyre laying down....”

Source : Song: Fifty Mile Hike
“Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.”
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
“Jesse [James]was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James ] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that celebrity.”
“When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean to give every man the best hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.”

You may also like:

Bret Stephens
Journalist
David Frum
Speechwriter
Elliott Abrams
Lawyer
Jonah Goldberg
Author
Midge Decter
Journalist
Norman Podhoretz
Pundit
Robert Kagan
Historian
William Kristol
Commentator
Max Boot
Author