I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book. —Groucho Marx More about this quote Tags: humor books television Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. —Walker Evans More about this quote Tags: attention learning purpose knowledge death listening urgency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing. —Robert Bresson More about this quote Tags: attention television media inattention Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: truth humanity society suicide Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: history freedom dogma USA creed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With words we govern men. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: power words government Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are good reasons why everybody should heed politicans' advice not to believe the media. One of the best is that the media report what politicians say. —Russell Baker More about this quote Tags: politics speech media reporting politicians Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most of us continue to work for wages in a highly unequal social system that denies us meaningful work and a decent return for our labor. That simple fact defines a set of common interests of immense democratic potential. —Charles Bergquist More about this quote Tags: potential meaning democracy labor work equality job Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic. —Lewis H. Lapham More about this quote Tags: politics humor dandyism morality wealth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. —Joseph Conrad More about this quote Tags: humanity man evil belief supernatural wickedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions. —Frantz Fanon More about this quote Tags: politics history power USA corruption Europe colonialism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For a transitory enchanted moment, man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: wonder history discovery desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: politics democracy amusement Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politicians are the same all over; they promise to build a bridge even where there is no water. —Nikita Kruschchev More about this quote Tags: politics corruption promises Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a roller coaster. Swim in the ocean. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never even heard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose—allow smells to be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to that miserable place you go every day. —Matthew Quick in Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock More about this quote Tags: life power purpose accomplishment vision change work revolution Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email