Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
~ Milan Kundera
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Category Archives: 2059 – Quote Unquote
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The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Clocks slay time. Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
― Michel Foucault
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The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The effect of the people’s agreeing that there must be central planning, without agreeing on the ends, will be rather as if a group of people were to commit themselves to take a journey together without agreeing where they want to go; with the result that they may all have to make a journey which most of them do not want at all.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Both of them were artists with highly developed personas, and hence unreliable witnesses to their own pasts.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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