"The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwardsâ€”to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state."

-- Nikolai Berdyaev

#Darkness Quotes #Movement Quotes #Return Quotes

“Open your heart and love and be loved, my mother still loves me. She's 96.”
“The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?”

Source : Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone
“No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.”
“Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.”
“While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass”
“It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.”

Source : 1979 TheMyth Makers,'Pasternak'.
“I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive.”

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