Martha Dodd quotes

Martha Dodd quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“As factual and thoughtful literature began to seep in, against the Nazis' will, and replace the reams of Nazi propaganda, I began to see the German Jew in his historical role, in his good as well as his bad light.”
-- Martha Dodd

Source : Martha Dodd (1939). “Through embassy eyes”, New York

#Thoughtful Quotes #Light Quotes #Historical Quotes

“Judge Roberts is a brilliant lawyer, a brilliant judge. He is a very careful judge, a thoughtful judge. I would agree with what the President said earlier. He is a decent man. I think everybody who knows him likes him.”
“When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.”
“The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!”
“Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.”
“My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.”
“A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.”
“Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.”
“By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.”
“Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.”
“Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.”

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