#become

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#action #again #always #become #democracy

The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#big #commission #crawling #lone #think

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#estate #fourth #gallery #realm #reporters

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#become #business #ceased #dreams #everybody

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#amongst #arms #become #buying #each

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#africa #anything #apartheid #becomes #come

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#become #books #came #change #come

I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play. ↗

— Mako

#america #architect #banquet #became #become

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#become #created #crucial #discovery #had

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. ↗

— David Mamet

#anything #artist #become #create #devour