Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche. — Marya Mannes Copy Share
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. — Marya Mannes Copy Share
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes Copy Share
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part… — Marya Mannes Copy Share
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. — Marya Mannes Copy Share
When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift… — Marya Mannes Copy Share
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society. — Marya Mannes Copy Share
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