Demagogy Progressivism Politics Quotes & Sayings

There can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please. — James Otis

Staring down at the brook, I remembered a stream near Mammoth Lake. We'd parked the camper just above it and, all night, listened to it splashing across rocks and stones; a lovely sound. — Richard Matheson

One of the things that should go into the writer's notebook is a set of experiments with the sentence. A convenient and challenging place to begin is with the long sentence, one that runs to at least two pages. — John Gardner

The problem is that most of us hated school. His fallacy was much the same as progressivism's: the assumption that if he could just explain the facts clearly, build a convincing enough argument, eventually everyone would come around to his conclusion. But people aren't interested in lectures; they want to hear stories. Which is why the right holds the demagogic advantage over the left in America; they tell a simpler, more satisfying story. — Tim Kreider

still carry around with me a battle between working conceptually - art based on some overriding idea - and my pure carnal sensory love of materials. — Kim Gordon

Nelson's Mandela own sense of himself was a very humble reading, [different] from how the world read him. And, quite often, you had the sense that he was not comfortable with all the accolades that would be. — Kumi Naidoo

The dark tides of the shadow. The children of the shadow. No. They've come. From beyond the stars, the dark tides of shadow have come to engulf us again." - Jack KcKinney — Jack McKinney

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations. — Thomas George Bonney

To create art means
to be crazy alone
forever. — Charles Bukowski

But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence. — Aaron Sorkin

To Him who has sense, a sign is enough
For the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough. — Idries Shah

God has all the answers, seek him. — Evans Biya

Charity begins with a full stomach," the North Koreans like to say; you can't feed somebody else's kids if your own are starving. When — Barbara Demick

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- I will accept what u say I will agree with u say, because I don't want trouble but remember you going in direction wrong. — Deyth Banger

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin. — Eric Clapton

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion. — Nancy Reagan