“Whenever there are great virtues, it’s a sure sign something’s wrong.”

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren’t always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

You can make a fresh start with your final breath.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

For art to be ‘unpolitical’ means only to ally itself with the ‘ruling’ group.

The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.

The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Never give up, have the passion. Don’t be afraid.

If you can’t look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

They know they’ve won,” Carter guessed. “They’re making a show of it.” “Yes,” Amos said. “Well, let’s blow up the boats or something!” I said. Amos looked at me. “Is that your strategy, honestly?

Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

Make up your mind about things, by all means – but if something happens to show that you are wrong, then it is feeble not to change your mind,

I don’t really know what to make of it. There’s something terribly brittle about it. I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.