Monday, June 30, 2003
�Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.�
- Mary McCarthy (1912 � 1989), American author and critic: �The Contagion of Ideas�, speech, 1952, published in �On the Contrary�, 1961.
�The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It�s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam��
- J. G. Ballard (b. 1930), British author: interview first published in �Metaphors�, No. 7, 1983, reprinted in �Re/Search� (San Francisco), No.8/9, 1984.
�The United States has now achieved what critics of socialism have always posited as the end result of the socialist state: a prosperous, empty, uninspiring uniformity. If we do not have exactly what Marx meant by a classless society, we do have something so close to it that the term is certainly no longer an alluring goal.�
- Pauline Kael (1919 - 2001), American film critic: �I Lost it at the Movies�, 1965.
�It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.�
- Camille Paglia (b. 1947), American author and critic: �The Big Udder�, first published in the �Philadelphia Enquirer�, May 12, 1991, reprinted in �Sex, Art and American Culture�, 1992.
- Mary McCarthy (1912 � 1989), American author and critic: �The Contagion of Ideas�, speech, 1952, published in �On the Contrary�, 1961.
�The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It�s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam��
- J. G. Ballard (b. 1930), British author: interview first published in �Metaphors�, No. 7, 1983, reprinted in �Re/Search� (San Francisco), No.8/9, 1984.
�The United States has now achieved what critics of socialism have always posited as the end result of the socialist state: a prosperous, empty, uninspiring uniformity. If we do not have exactly what Marx meant by a classless society, we do have something so close to it that the term is certainly no longer an alluring goal.�
- Pauline Kael (1919 - 2001), American film critic: �I Lost it at the Movies�, 1965.
�It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.�
- Camille Paglia (b. 1947), American author and critic: �The Big Udder�, first published in the �Philadelphia Enquirer�, May 12, 1991, reprinted in �Sex, Art and American Culture�, 1992.
Comments:
Post a Comment
