Weston La Barre Quotes
Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
Weston La Barre
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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
Odilon Redon
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Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Our intellectual development in the field of science has outstripped our human development in the field of character.
Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
Oscar Wilde
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When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.
Mark Levin
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Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.
Bill Vaughan
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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
Elliott Carter
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I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.
Ella Baker
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Between getting some royalties and doing some gigs that I really wanna do, I can make a living, I have made a living, but it was a lot of hard times in between there, just struggling and trying to find some kind of footing somewhere doing something.
Stevie Young
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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
George Gilder
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Imprisonment in the contemporary is the worst of all intellectual tyrannies.
Weston La Barre
