Angel Quote by E. F. Schumacher

“But I am weary of this place, and sick to death of playing at philanthropy and progress. Of all varieties of mock-life, we have…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts…

— Al Alvarez

“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but possessing its…

— Richard Wright

“If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal facts but…

— Richard Kearney

“So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled mentally by quarter-educated herdsmen, whose wages…

— Aleister Crowley

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is…

— Robert Peel

“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime"…

— C.S. Lewis

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though…

— Jean Lorrain

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.”

— Samuel Johnson

“God mocks the greatness of man by forging them into the law of occasion, so a person in turn mocks by making the occasion…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Whether out of inertia or selfishness, whether out of fear or a simple lack of moral imagination, we so often spend our lives as…

— Obama

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions…

— Octave Mirbeau