#san

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#artists #craziness #sanity #society #art

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#everyone #i #insanity #me #recommend

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#administration #eight #four #had #humane

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. ↗

— Mel Torme

#being #close #did #eight #even

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#burnt #capable #cricket #french #had

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#bipartisan #fellow #going #i #know

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#freed #i #knew #more #only

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#could #freed #i #if i could #more

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#areas #battery #behind #caused #china

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#events #i #i think #instead #more