#cs

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#greatness #mediocrity #needed #politics

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work. ↗

— Joe Flanigan

#banking #college #doing #enjoyed #graduating

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

#critics #degree #determination #dullness #fascinating

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#conservative #engaged #exercises #justification #man

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#left #matter #politicians #serious #too

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#feed #hungry #statistics #you

We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#actually #come #find #having #i

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#remarkably #similar #situations #war

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#comics #culture #jazz #movies #rock