"It's a very teenage idea - this idea that thought is ruined when we give over to television shows and glossy magazines and what they are telling us to do. The alternative, I believe, in is pitiless censorship. Because we owe each other the best effort we can to see one another without that mediation."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

John Maus

#Teenage Quotes #Believe Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.”
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
“Whether in commerce, administration, or on the battlefield, leaders who win understand the Secret of Victory: Act first to finish first.”
“I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.”
“As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.”
“In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.”
“A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.”
“...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.”

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