"If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni."

-- W. H. Auden

#Queens Quotes #Character Quotes #Home Quotes

“Legality and oppression are not unknown to run hand in hand.”
“I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (1990). “David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame”, University Galleries
“A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.”

Source : Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.15, University of Illinois Press
“I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter.”

Source : George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”
“Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.”

Source : "A Queer and Joyful Noise" by James Lecesne, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2013.
“The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.”
“We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.”
“It's the occasion that makes the revolution.”

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