Quote by Rebecca West
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each others nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed. – Rebecca West

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. – Rebecca West

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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West

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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. – Hannah Arendt

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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. – Albert Camus

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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe… the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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