"A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?"

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Source : Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.177, Faber & Faber

Louis MacNeice

#Culture Quotes #Guilty Quotes #Free Speech Quotes

“The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer an audience for serious Broadway plays. . . . Perhaps we should acknowledge that, having lost its traditional audience, Broadway can never again be a home for new plays.”
“The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.”
“The body has to be invaded by the intelligence; each part has to become intelligent.”
“Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either.”
“A woman is often measured by the things she cannot control. She is measured by the way her body curves or doesn't curve, by where she is flat or straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36 and inches and ages and numbers, by all the outside things that donâ€™t ever add up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control, by who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are only statistics... and STATISTICS LIE.”
“I had no real photography experience, thankfully. I consciously took a lot of crowd shots. I was influenced by Seattle photographer Charles Peterson, who always seemed to incorporate fans in his live band shots.”
“I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.”
“Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.”

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