"Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization."

-- Nicholas Murray Butler

#Order Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Achievement Quotes

“Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.”

Source : Charles Jencks (2012). “The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons
“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.”

Source : "Rabble-rouser" by William F. Buckley, Jr., www.newyorker.com. March 1, 2004.
“According as the man is, so must you humour him.”
“Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.”

Source : Donald E Westlake (2011). “Drowned Hopes”, p.36, Overamstel Uitgevers
“I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.”
“The New Testament never simply says, "Remember Jesus Christ." That is a half-finished sentence. It says, "Remember Jesus Christ is risen from the dead."”
“Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.”

Source : Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. December 06, 2000.
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

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