"The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap."

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Cynthia Ozick

#Lasts Quotes #Logic Quotes #Madness Quotes

“I don't like politicians who vacillate.”
“I also think that we [Americans] are operating out of fear in our country. It's not that terrorism is not a threat, but it's not an existential threat. It is not the preeminent threat facing most Americans on any given day, and yet the power of nightmares is so strong.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Survival's the thing, isn't it?”
“Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.”

Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”
“I've been acting for many years, and the more you do, the more confidence you get about "this is my career and this is what I'm going to be doing."”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205â€”a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”
“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.”

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