The spectacle of a
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world. Garet Garrett
Want
Is it security you
Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world. Garet Garrett
Women are skinny for
Women are skinny for other women. Men want something they can actually hold on to. Garcelle Beauvais
The reality of the
The reality of the world we live in is that people sometimes aren’t interested in many circumstances; no matter how much young radicals yell at them, that isn’t what they want to do right now. Gar Alperovitz
We need to learn
We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments? … Read more
I want to write
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly. Gao Xingjian
The sand murmurs that
The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything. Gao Xingjian
When God talks to
When God talks to humans he doesn’t want humans to hear his voice. Gao Xingjian
When I came overseas,
When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it’s also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn’t want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that’s also a kind of pressure that doesn’t allow absolute freedom. So I decided … Read more
I decided that I
I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom. Gao Xingjian