"Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past."

-- Octavio Paz

#Fall Quotes #Past Quotes #Men Quotes

“And you know, talk about something else is falling from the sky. And that is an asteroid. What's coming our way? Is this an effect of perhaps global warming or just some meteoric occasion?”

Source : "CNN Newsroom" with Deborah Feyerick, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.
“I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.”

Source : "Liu Xiaobo: China's Poet-Dissident" by Suzanne Nossel, www.politico.com. December 28, 2017.
“Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.”

Source : Peter F. Drucker, Joan Snyder Kuhl, Frances Hesselbein (2015). “Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today's Leaders”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons
“The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.
“People get careless when they're feeling safe.”
“The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.”
“Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while....”
“I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.”

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