Uncorruptible Quotes & Sayings

Beauty will be convulsive or not at all. — Andre Breton

Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger
but not exultation — Howard Fast

The movies are probably a very unsafe guide to popular taste, because the film industry is virtually a monopoly, which means that it is not obliged to study its public at all closely. — George Orwell

Little men," he once said, "spend their days in pursuit of such things. I know from experience that at the moment of their deaths they see their lives shattered before them like glass. I've seen them die. They fall away as if they have been pushed, and the expressions on their faces are those of the most unbelieving surprise. Not so, the man who knows the virtues and lives by them. The world goes this way and that. Ideas are in fashion or not, and those who should prevail are often defeated. But it doesn't matter. The virtues remain uncorrupted and uncorruptible. They are rewards in themselves, the bulwarks with which we can protect our vision of beauty, and the strengths by which we may stand, unperturbed, in the storm that comes when seeking God. — Mark Helprin

Philosophy's true use - "An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships". — Ryan Holiday

The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy. — John F. Kerry

I turn back to the lake, stare at the ice slowly moving on the surface of the water. Pieces of the solid fall into the liquid, but it's all just water no matter what its form. — Carrie Jones

Does that mean I can expect breakfast soon? Maybe some ackee and saltfish, or banana porridge?" Reggie snorted. "Means you can go fuck yourself. — Avril Ashton