"The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born."

-- Renata Adler

#Sex Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Loneliness Quotes

“What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?”
“Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.”
“The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.”

Source : "Revolt Against Mechanism". Book by L. P. Jacks, 1933.
“I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.”

Source : Interview with Ken P, www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.
“Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.”
“All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter”
“Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.”

Source : Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.10, WILLIAM HEINEMANN
“We started filming in 1993 which was only four years after the fall of communism. The difference in Budapest over the last five years has been remarkable.”

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