"In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed on people in the name of the future."

-- Herbert Read

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“You mean that people who continue virtuous in an old-fashioned way must inevitably suffer in times like these?”
“I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.”
“Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,”

Source : Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.183, Vintage
“Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”
“Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!”
“We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime”
“David Cameron's message of change, optimism and hope is in tune with what Britain wants today”
“One of the great threats to our national security is social cohesion. If people no longer believe that you can start out anywhere and end up at the top successfully in America, that the American dream is part of the past, I think that erodes a sense of belief and confidence in our nation.”

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