"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature."

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Source : Sidney Hook (1987). “Out of step: an unquiet life in the 20th century”, Harpercollins

Sidney Hook

#Judging Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Literature Quotes

“The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.”

Source : "Rep. Gowdy: Paper applications for ObamaCare are a 'facade'". www.foxnews.com. November 04, 2013.
“I think thats what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.”
“I think if the movie has resonance and stimulates the viewer to talk about it, you can have as large an audience as you want. The most important thing for me is that the movie exists. And that's success enough already.”
“The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.”
“The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true.”
“Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?”
“I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.”
“Playing golf is like eating. It's something which has to come naturally.”

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