"Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility."

-- Rebecca West

#Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Reform Quotes

“There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers
“There is no armour against fate.”

Source : 'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3
“Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief.”
“If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!”
“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.”

Source : "Words of Art: Inspiring Quotes from the Masters". Book published by Adams Media, 2013.
“There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.”

Source : Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion
“I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.”
“I started doing 'figures', then, one day, all of a sudden, I started doing abstraction. And then I started doing both. But it was never really a conscious decision. It was simply a question of desire. In fact, I really prefer making figurative work, but the figure is difficult. So to work around the difficulty I take a break and paint abstractly. Which I really like, by the way, because it allows me to make beautiful paintings.”

You may also like:

Dorothy Thompson
Journalist
Edith Sitwell
Poet
Elizabeth Bowen
Novelist
Emmeline Pankhurst
Activist
Ezra Pound
Poet
H. G. Wells
Writer
Stephen Sondheim
Composer
Victoria Glendinning
Biographer
Wyndham Lewis
Painter