"A good deal of classical music is, today,……" — George Steiner
"A good deal of classical music is, today, the opium of the good citizen."
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76 Quotes by George Steiner
George Steiner has 76 quotes on this site.
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this…
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she…
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The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can…
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are…
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on,…
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To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is…
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.
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Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
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The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
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I am proud of my husband, Marcus, the love of my life, and his Swiss heritage. Even though I have…
— Michele Bachmann
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People were floored when they saw that the underwear bomber, after less than 50 minutes of interrogation, was given the…
— Michele Bachmann
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
— Francis Bacon
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As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who…
— David Baldacci
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I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
— Antonio Banderas
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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these…
— Charles A. Beard
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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to…
— Warren Beatty
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I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.
— Lewis Black
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The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument…
— Robert Bolt
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in…
— Barbara Boxer
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