"The rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons."

-- Poul Henningsen

#Simple Quotes #Views Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story.”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.56, Wesleyan University Press
“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.”
“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”

Source : Walker Evans (2004). “Many are Called”, p.202, Yale University Press
“As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.”
“Romance is the douche of the bourgeoisie.”

Source : "Song: San Francisco B.C. (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)". June 17, 2008.
“My questions did surprise some people. Others didn't bat an eye. That happens with all my books - I'll read them in a certain mood and think, "Gosh, what was I thinking that day? This is really kind of odd." But on other days it seems totally normal to me.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“The [Hobby Lobby Supreme Court] ruling raises the question of why, uniquely in the industrialized world, Americans have for so long favored an arrangement in health insurance that endows their employers with the quasi-parental power to choose the options that employees may be granted in the market for health insurance.”
“Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward.”

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