Edward Aveling Quotes & Sayings

To be sure, repression must also allow an occasional breathing space, must close an eye every now and then, alternate indulgence with abuse, with a certain unpredictability in its caprices; otherwise, if nothing more remains to be repressed, the whole system rusts and wears down. Let's be frank: every regime, even the most authoritarian, survives in a situation of unstable equilibrium, whereby it needs to justify constantly the existence of its repressive apparatus, therefore of something to repress. — Italo Calvino

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies. — Emile M. Cioran

I'm more focused on making a scene seem real as opposed to perfect. — Clint Eastwood

A time, a space, a different place/ How perfect we might be/ I would be the wind that blows/ You'd be that Willow tree/ And I could never bare the thought of you not by my side/ So I would be the warmth of day/ You'd be the cool of night — Stephen Marley

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. — Earl Warren