"The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and……" — George Steiner
"The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words."
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George Steiner
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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 Brutality Quotes
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
— Georg Brandes
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism,…
— Aberjhani
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre…
— Woodrow Wilson
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Brutality creates respect.
— Adolf Hitler
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We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and…
— Cesar Chavez
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I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something…
— Malcolm X
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Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once…
— Dalai Lama
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No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until…
— Swami Vivekananda
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
— Richard J. Needham
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The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
— Richard J. Needham
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