Useless quote for 20 January:

"Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started."

~ Mary Midgley, in "The Myths We Live By" (2004)

#UselessQuote #MaryMidgley

Useless quote for 19 January:

"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in …"

~ Arthur Schopenhauer, in "Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit" (1851) ("Counsels and Maxims", trans. T. Bailey Saunders, 1890)

#UselessQuote #ArthurSchopenhauer

Useless quote for 18 January:

"Even what appears to us most completely won and consolidated can disappear in a few generations."

~ José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), in "El hombre y la gente" (1957; "Man and People" trans. Willard R. Trask, 1957)

#UselessQuote #JoséOrtegaYGasset

Useless quote for 17 January:

"In a sense the right wing is correct in identifying itself with tranquillity and order: it is an order of daily humiliation for the majority, but an order nonetheless; it is a tranquillity in which injustice continues to be unjust and hunger to be hungry."

~ Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015), in "Open Veins of Latin America" (Las venas abiertas de América Latina, 1971), English translation by Cedric Belfrage, 1973

#UselessQuote #EduardoGaleano

Useless quote for 16 January:

"Their talent is being able to anticipate their superiors’ opinions; in meetings, they show a sixth sense for guessing what the most powerful person in the room wants to hear."

~ Pauline Kael, in "Why Are Movies So Bad? Or, The Numbers", The New Yorker 16 June 1980

Link to source:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1980/06/23/why-are-movies-so-bad-or-the-numbers

#UselessQuote #PaulineKael

Useless quote for 15 January:

"Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty."

~ Katherine Anne Porter, in "The Never-Ending Wrong" (1977)

Link to source:
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/oj/porterf.htm

#UselessQuote #KatherineAnnePorter

Useless quote for 14 January:

"You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's 24 letters in between."

~ Grace Slick, in an interview in "Getting High - The History of LSD" (History Channel, 2000)

#UselessQuote #GraceSlick

Useless quote for 13 January:

"It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over."*

~ Dmitri Shostakovich, in his memoirs, "Testimony" (1979; trans. Antonina W. Bouis)

* "It" being his 1957 Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103

#UselessQuote #DmitriShostakovich

Useless quote for 12 January:

"Instant gratification takes too long."

~ Carrie Fisher, in her novel "Postcards from the Edge" (1987)

#UselessQuote #CarrieFisher

Useless quote for 11 January:

"When I came out in 1985, there were no arguments about being trans. We were like non-people. We were not considered part of society."

~ Eddie Izzard, in a 2022 interview with Rachel Wearmouth, "Eddie Izzard: 'Other people have to join the 21st century' ", The New Stateman, 8 Nov 2022

Link to source:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2022/11/eddie-izzard-interview-sheffield-labour-trans-rights

#UselessQuote #EddieIzzard