#lit

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#liberal #politics #change

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#field #get #more #only #politics

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#depression #economy #government #great #great depression

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another. ↗

— Fred Frith

#another #beyond #clear #component #fairly

Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool. ↗

— Criss Jami

#falsehood #fool #foolish #genius #honesty

A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom. I am oppressed if I am thrown into prison, but not if I am kept from throwing my neighbor into prison. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#existentialism #morality #freedom

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#conventional #copyright #day #disguised #distinctive

I love social media and the ability to connect to new people through Twitter and Facebook and share my real time experiences with my mommy network. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#connect #experiences #facebook #i #i love

Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other. ↗

— Lena Horne

#color #dr #each #every #i

There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality. ↗

— Michael Gartner

#corporate #decision #lost #may #much