"The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious."

-- Walter Benjamin

#Past Quotes #Winning Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!”
“I concede that segregation can allay social tensions immediately, but it further debilitates us in the long run.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“[And on going from character to leading actor] I don't approach anything differently; I just approach it as a character. I'm always astounded at the fact that I've ever played a leading character in anything [Laughs]. And my wife concurs with that, frankly. She always thought I would be, at best, the wacky neighbor on a sitcom, so this is all just a surprise and a joy.”
“A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Sep 30, 2015
“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”
“Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.”
“Men are fools to invest in real estate.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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