#order

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#acoustic guitar #alone #bordering #bravery #guitar

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#amount #appalled #become #blunted #desire

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#bohemian #i #i am #know #now

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#american citizens #anywhere #citizens #constituted #courts

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#basic #basic rights #carrying #court #defiance

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school. ↗

— Brian Eno

#art school #before #got #had #i

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#audiences #be happy #bigger #change #get

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#been #death #enforcing #execute #gave

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations. ↗

— Guy Verhofstadt

#brothers #conviction #duty #freedom #further