"It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you."

-- Kingsley Amis

#Historical Quotes #Belief Quotes #Historical Context Quotes

“Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.”
“The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest...”
“Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.”
“It is possible for science to make the world like the Garden of Eden! Amen. But it is also possible, and sometimes it seems more probable, that science will make the world a very good imitation of hell.”
“I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.”
“This bill says go after the criminal, don't go after the law-abiding gun manufacturer or the law-abiding gun seller.”
“But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.”
“I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.”

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