Between Quotes

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.

Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

We move between two darknesses.

When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.

I forced a smile. It was the one i’d been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.