"In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole."

-- Harold Rosenberg

#United States Quotes #Social Quotes #Structure Quotes

“My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.”
“I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn't just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn't care, because it was all about them.”
“One of the things I want to find out is where the hell are the WWE ice cream bars?!”
“You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit”
“In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.”
“Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
“There's always that fear of your own head and the things you're going to think.”
“Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic feelings by participating in the situations of others and acquiring an understanding of them. He thinks we also have a duty to make ourselves into the kind of person for whom the recognition that something is our duty would be a sufficient incentive to do it (if no other incentives were available to us). That's what he means by "the duty to act from the motive of duty".”

You may also like:

Arshile Gorky
Painter
Clement Greenberg
Essayist
Franz Kline
Painter
Jackson Pollock
Artist
Lee Krasner
Artist
Leo Steinberg
Art critic
Mark Rothko
Artist
Milton Resnick
Painter
Willem de Kooning
Artist