"Literature often gets taught nowadays as a record of the sins and shortcomings of the past. I see literature and the arts very differently: as essential to being human and to human progress, individual and collective."

-- Brian Boyd

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.”
“It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.”
“The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.”
“I tried once in my life to write a novel. I had written something like 80 pages of it when my laptop got stolen. When I told people this, they acted as if something tragic had happened, but I kind of felt relieved, grateful to the thief who saved me from another year of something that felt more like homework than fun.”
“My own suspicion is that a stand-alone artificial mind will be more a tool of narrow utility than something especially apocalyptic.”
“Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.”

Source : Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.124, Lulu.com
“To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.”
“It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.”

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