#reason

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#domination #entangled #fatally #itself #reason

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. ↗

— Jascha Heifetz

#appreciate #beethoven #composer #composers #contemporary

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#breaks #criticism #each #every #freedom

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one. ↗

— John Irving

#book #critics #done #dwell #feel

Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#bite #bites #had #i #job

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out. ↗

— Richard Jefferson

#i #insanely #odd #optimistic #out

I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason. ↗

— Tom Kenny

#dumb #i #kind #lot #reason

Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible. ↗

— Bill Kurtis

#any #better #choose #cliche #going

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#art #artists #both #bottom #bottom line

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#campaign #demonstrate #extreme #failure #his