Politics Quote by J. M. Coetzee

““In Coetzee's eyes, we human beings will never abandon politics because politics is too convenient and too attractive as a theatre in which to give play to our baser emotions.””

J. M. Coetzee

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To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a black skin,…

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The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

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“But with this woman it is as if there is no interior, only a surface across which I hunt back and forth seeking entry.…

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You think you know what is just and what is not. I understand. We all think we know." I had no doubt, myself, then,…

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The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is,…

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I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.

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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to…

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Denunciations of the manipulativeness of advertisers can unfortunately all too easily be turned on their heads into denunciations of the gullibility of consumers. Both…

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Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why…

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What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought…

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...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your…

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