"When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded."

-- Roger Scruton

#Art Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Shock Quotes

“Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.”

Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.127, University of Michigan Press
“You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today." The mother says "Well, that's when a man likes other men, and they don't like girls." The boy's eight. He's thinking, "Hmm. I don't like girls. I like boys. Maybe I'm gay." And you think, "Oh, that's, that's way out there. The kid isn't gonna think that." Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don't think that this is intentional, the message that's being given to these kids? That's child abuse.”
“The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.”

Source : Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”
“The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.”
“I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly â€” though not exclusively â€” who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.”
“The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate.”
“I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.”
“In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things”

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