Quotes

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth… you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” — Art of Quotation

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis (2009). “Virtue and Vice: […]

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”If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — Art of Quotation

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell, “The Freedom of the Press” (1945)

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In Memory: “Don’t look at things — look in between things.” — Art of Quotation

“Don’t look at things — look in between things.” John Baldessari, photographer, painter, filmmaker, sculptor, 1931-2020

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“there’s no telling where this mad man might drag us.” — Art of Quotation

[It’s] one thing when he’s baiting Democrats, quite another when he’s thumbing his nose at international law. On Twitter he threatened to bomb important cultural sites in Iran and later explained to reporters aboard Air Force One that if it and other countries were going to engage in terrorism and torture, hell, why should we […]

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”don’t regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.” — Art of Quotation

Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don’t regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve […]

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“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” — Art of Quotation

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud, author

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“These days the buck stops nowhere / No one takes the blame / But evil is still evil / In anybody’s name” — Art of Quotation

These days the buck stops nowhere No one takes the blame But evil is still evil In anybody’s name Don Henley, songwriter, quote from If Dirt Were Dollars Walkin’ like a millionaire Smilin’ like a king He leaned his shopping cart against the wall He said, “I been a lot of places And I seen […]

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