"Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It is one of Europe's oddest countries. Here, in the middle of the twentieth century, with modern technology transforming everybody's lives, you find a medieval mentality that is being dragged painfully into the eighteenth century by some forward-looking people."

-- Bernadette Devlin

#Country Quotes #Technology Quotes #Europe Quotes

“Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.”

Source : 1915 Manifesto, quoted in C Gray The Russian Experiment in Art (rev edn1986).
“It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.”
“Whosoever is determined to seek guidance and follow a path of right conduct must search for a shaykh from amongst those who have realization, one who follows a path methodically, who has abandoned his passions, and who has firmly established his feet in the service of his Lord.”
“My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?”
“Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.”
“The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling”
“In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.”
“I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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