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Other Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never…
- Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it…
- The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To…
- People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.
- Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors...disconnected from each other. On foot everything stays connected, for while walking one occupies the spaces between…
- Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking…
- Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal…
- How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and…
- Panic is rare, looting is essentially insignificant, people are not terrified and trampling each other to flee from a disaster scene, but in fact are…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour