"It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake."

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Source : Norman Douglas (1922). “Alone”

Norman Douglas

#Issues Quotes #Society Quotes #Age Quotes

“It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.”
“The kids know me from 'Babe,' but usually it is 'L.A. Confidential' that people remember, which was the second film I did. I have worked with some really good people and the films that I've done for the most part have been good.”
“If God is male, then the male is God.”

Source : Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.40, Beacon Press
“There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.”
“I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.”
“It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.”
“Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?”
“Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.”

Source : Hinton Rowan Helper (1857). “The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet it”, p.406

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