"There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre."

-- Harold Pinter

#Art Quotes #Political Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“We are all salesmen every day of our lives. We are selling our ideas, our plans, our enthusiasms to those with whom we come in contact.”
“The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“I love you as one should, to excess. With folly, delight and despair.”
“Psychic disturbances are the consequences of the sexual chaos of society. For thousands of years, this chaos has had the function of psychically subjecting man to the prevailing conditions of existence, of internalizing the external mechanization of life. It has served to bring about the psychic anchoring of a mechanized and authoritarian civilization by making man incapable of functioning independently.”
“Work will cure your grief. Serve others.”
“The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.”
“What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw their hearts to Christ.”
“I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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