Bethania McKenstry Famous Quotes
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
Bethania McKenstry Quotations
"'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game."
Octavio Paz
"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
T S Eliot
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Moorish Proverb
The society of women is the element of good manners.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
Wystan Hugh Auden
"After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar."
David Assael
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
Wystan Hugh Auden
"Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy."
Noam Chomsky
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Chinese Proverb
"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."
Mother Theresa