Real Quotes

If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven’s cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.

That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O’Brian a Master of the Art.

It was Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Wendell Phillips – these were the people who made abolition real. Now, none of you guys is in favor of slavery, right?

He isn’t a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.

The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively.

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

I was a real mummy’s girl – still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I’m still working out. I love that man!

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Any perception can connect us to reality, properly and fully. What we see doesn’t have to be pretty, particularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.