"The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained."

-- Gerda Lerner

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Promise Quotes

“As has happened so often in history, victory had bred a complacency and fostered an orthodoxy which led to defeat in the next war.”
“I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.”
“I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.”
“Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.”
“Failure is a fuel for excuses.”
“Aren't all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing a swan around all night.”
“What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?”
“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.”

Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1949). “The progress of a biographer”

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