"The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors."

-- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

#History Quotes #Victory Quotes #Liberalism Quotes

“I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together.”
“Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.”
“After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.”

Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
“How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.”
“Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how you're going to cope with the situation, the obstacles, the troubles that the writer put in front of you.”
“I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.”
“The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.”
“Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.”

Source : "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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