"Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these……" — George Steiner
"Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence."
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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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More Blackmail Quotes
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We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.
— George W. Bush
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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
— Jean Cocteau
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
— Mark Twain
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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation…
— Ayn Rand
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States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the…
— George W. Bush
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The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail…
— Dan B. Allender
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Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love…
— Michael Jackson
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When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.
— Kim Jong-un
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You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do…
— Robert Young
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In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
— Alberto Fujimori
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