Haniff Benjamin Quotes & Sayings

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media. — Christopher Lasch

Beulah, peel me a grape — Mae West

As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody. — James Salter

The only one you can accurately compare yourself to is you! — Mike Mentzer

The notion that one must know history in order to understand the present has a certain justification when applied to the history of events, but not for the structural history of society. Rather, the opposite is the case: to examine the *constitution* of a particular social and economic structure, one has to be already familiar with the *completed* structure. Only then will one know what to look for in history. — Michael Heinrich

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them. — Baruch Spinoza

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case. — Feist

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them ... the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to
love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity. — Blaise Pascal