All Quotes

Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.

—Allan Goldfein

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

—Jack Kerouac

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

—Albert Camus

The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is given, as earth or air, sun or moon or stars, or the dreams of man.

—Cid Corman

The function of freedom is to free somebody else.

—Toni Morrison

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book.

—Groucho Marx

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

Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.

—Robert Bresson

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

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

With words we govern men.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

—Joseph Conrad