"Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Sides Quotes #Conservative Quotes #Social Quotes

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.497, Univ of California Press
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.”
“I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.”
“There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.”
“simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.”

Source : Marjorie Holmes (1982). “I've/Talk/Somebd/God”, Bantam Books
“We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God's promises in every area of our lives.”
“Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage.”
“A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.”

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