"Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing."

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Source : Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”

Archibald MacLeish

#Democracy Quotes #Done Quotes

“And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.”
“To love God and neighbor is not something abstract, but profoundly concrete: it means seeing in every person and face of the Lord to be served, to serve him concretely. And you are, dear brothers and sisters, in the face of Jesus.”
“Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.”

Source : Matilda Joslyn Gage (1893). “Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate”
“The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1988). “The accursed share: an essay on general economy”, Zone Books (NY)
“To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.”
“I admire self-awareness more than probably any other quality, and I think in terms of what qualities are "good" in a person, it's a mostly subjective opinion, so I can't see a reason to think that self-absorption is inherently a bad thing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.”
“This is a good day to die. Follow me!”

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