Marinetti Futurist Quotes & Sayings

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all. — Pope Leo XII

I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while. — Fiona Apple

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order. — Georges Bataille

For it is a truth, that fortune is inconstant, fickle and mutable. — Hilary Mantel

We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath...a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace. — F. T. Marinetti

Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I sit in thy shadow but not alone. — Elizabeth Siddal

In pride we consciously elevate our own standing and concerns and look down upon others as essentially inferior. — Stephen Batchelor

Your life may have taken a detour, but God is still on the throne. He has brought you this far, and sooner or later, your peace will be restored. — Joel Osteen

I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it. It rings a bell inside of us that elevates us as human beings, and I treasure that. I think it's one of the few great things about human beings. — David Crosby

Without cutting her gaze over to him, she already knew what she would see. She would see a rich boy dressed like a mannequin and coiffed like a newscaster - but his eyes were like the dreaming pool in Cabeswater. He hid the insatiable wanting well, but now that she'd seen it once, she couldn't stop seeing it. — Maggie Stiefvater

But art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experience: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one's aim is to be protected from the second. — James Baldwin

What the Soviet Union was to the ideology of Marxism, the Low-Fat Campaign is to the ideology of nutritionism - its supreme test and, as now is coming clear, its most abject failure. — Michael Pollan

So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather from
inside out. — Thomas Daniel Nehrer