"Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed."

-- Bernard Beckett

#History Quotes #Conflict Quotes #Tendencies Quotes

“When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your head and think "there, I'm so irrational!". But your reluctance to sit on a probably rickety chair is not irrational - you think it's irrational because you have a false view of what irrationality is.”
“If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.”
“Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.”

Source : Betty Comden (1995). “Off Stage”
“I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.”

Source : "Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty".
“What I want is to open up. I want to know what's inside me. I want everybody to open up. I'm like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin-- to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I'm sure of it.”
“You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.”
“Holding on to things only breaks your heart.”

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