"A man doesn't save a century, or a civilization, but a militant party wedded to a principle can."

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Source : "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 17), 1952.

Adlai Stevenson I

#Party Quotes #Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person.”
“If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care!”

Source : "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.
“If you, the citizen, deliberately vote for someone who won't give you healthcare over someone who will, you need to have your head examined. Except you can't afford to have your head examined.”
“When I was six all I could think about was ding-dongs and yo-yos.”
“The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.”
“A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.”
“of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.”
“I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.”

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