I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasnt it? Thats the place where your dreams will come true. Its an act of faith now they think thats going to sort things out. – Jarvis Cocker
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die. – William Morris
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. – William Tecumseh Sherman
Mens indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. – Thucydides