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“And change isn't destruction. It's just change.”
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“My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.”
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“I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.”
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“If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.”
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“There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.”
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“Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.”
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“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”
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“men are not born with a faculty for the universal and ... women are not reduced at birth to the particular. The universal has been, and is continually, at every moment, appropriated by men. It does not happen by magic, it must be done. It is an act, a criminal act, perpetrated by one class against another. It is an act carried out at the level of concepts, philosophy, politics.”
Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
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“Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.”
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“Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none.”
Source : Sir Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life, in seven essays ... From the third London edition”, p.12
