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“A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.”
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“It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.”
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“The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.”
Source : Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”
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“Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.”
Source : Diana Trilling (1977). “We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade”, Harcourt
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“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.”
Source : Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
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“I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.”
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“Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.”
Source : Cressida Cowell (2017). “How To Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons”, p.15, Hachette UK
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“Instead of thinking of the question of race genealogically, and leaving it open whether vernacular races are genealogical units, the interest in biomedicine has been to determine whether vernacular racial categories are medically useful in diagnosis and treatment. There is on-going debate about this.”
