#aria

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria. ↗

— David Lodge

#cathedrals #criteria #existence #justify #modern

I'm a vegetarian, but I don't expect other people not to eat meat. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#expect #i #meat #other #people

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing. ↗

— LaToya London

#ballad #big #bring #came #carey

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#history #only #proletariat #revolution #school

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#blood #democracy #flesh #guard #masses

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#basically #ever #everything #happened #i

The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#activist #care #celebrating #deficit #embrace

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#books #correcting #course #expected #i

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#culture #huge #risks #totalitarian #without

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#channels #cherished #confidence #did #difficult