There is no art without Eros.
—Max Frisch, 1983
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We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
—Winston Churchill, 1948They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.
—Martin Luther, c. 1530How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Before the earth could become an industrial garbage can, it had first to become a research laboratory.
—Theodore Roszak, 1972Imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
—Katherine Anne Porter, 1949In time history must become a fairy tale—it will become again what it was in the beginning.
—Novalis, c. 1798Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.
—Vladimir Lenin, 1923Does anybody really want to attend to cities other than to flee, fleece, privatize, butcher, or decimate them?
—Jane Holtz Kay, 1992I do desire we may be better strangers.
—William Shakespeare, 1600The land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
—The BibleTo ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.
—Albert Camus, 1951It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing—that’s the Lord’s test.
—Mahalia Jackson, 1966