The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree,… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Joining a radical movement when one is young is very much like falling in love when one is young. The girl may… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.” — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
“An argument ensued about abundance, leisure, work, nature, and what a second girl kept calling 'the American way.' When I asked her… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
In the event of a violent revolution, we would be sorely outnumbered. And when it was all over, the Negro would face… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. — Kim Stanley Copy Share Image
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
