Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. — Kim Stanley 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
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
“I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.” — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our… — William Throsby Bridges Copy Share Image
The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held… — William Robertson Nicoll Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the… — Lermontov Copy Share Image
As we have seen, the first public expression of disenchantment with nonviolence arose around the question of 'self-defense.' In a sense this… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“All disenchantment is to me a malady, which, it is true, certain circumstances may render inevitable, but which none the less, when… — Bertrand Russell 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
Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results;… — Enrique Pena Nieto Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the… — Max Weber 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
All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the… — Samuel Florman 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
“And yes, given our circumstances, in this post-enlightenment era of post-trust, post-truth, post-rationality, post-honour, and post-chivalry; as meaningless non-entities in a disenchanted… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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
Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. — Max Ehrmann 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
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“When love gets on a slippery slope, unawareness or indifference might be the underpinning of disenchantment and falling out of love. (“Amour… — Erik Pevernagie 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
The challenge is for us to reinvigorate the relationship with the Chilean people and to give state institutions new legitimacy. But this… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
