"No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under."

-- David Lloyd George

#Long Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but as a concession to the nature of our own mind. It uses scriptural passages in an uplifting fashion as a way, provided for us from the first, to uplift our mind in a manner suitable to our nature.”
“Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.”

Source : Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.91, Chronicle Books
“What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.”
“No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.”
“If a religion is unpatriotic, it ain't right.”
“The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.”
“After moving to New York, I started to love vintage shopping.”
“The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.”

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