Kenneth Clark Quotes

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• Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.
• The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many…
• The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of…
• Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
• We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
• The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
• To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
• Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
• All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
• Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
• No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling, even if it be only the faintest shadow -…
• God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things
• A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to…
• Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

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