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“I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.”
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“It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one.”
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“Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.”
Source : Luce Irigaray (2002). “Between East and West: From Singularity to Community”, p.27, Columbia University Press
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“I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.”
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“That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.”
Source : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
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“It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?”
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“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
Source : Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.10, Vintage
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“You want a blood relative to lead your army? Get Marcie. She likes ordering people around. She'll be a natural.”