“Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Well, I'm not involved in polemics. I never wanted to have any position of power, and I don't have it. — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error.… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“So, you see, what kept me from rushing in with an answer to you was not the difficulty of so doing, nor… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
