Augean Stable Quotes

#1. Every civilization when it loses its inner vision
and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness,
more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort.
An Augean stable of metallic filth.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. What do you mean? he asked. Beginning with the State, I replied, would you say that a city which is governed by a tyrant is free or enslaved? No city, he said, can be more completely enslaved. And

Plato

#3. I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

Steven Hatfill

#4. Something new seemed to be accomplishing itself within him, and one of the things that went with it was a kind of craving for people.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like.

Molly Ivins

#6. People's attentions spans are getting shorter and shorter. I don't want to cater to that necessarily but, just for myself, it feels like more than 40 minutes of music is too much.

Phil Elvrum

#7. I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Joshua Lederberg

#8. When I am weak, then I am strong.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#9. Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

John Cage

#10. I've travelled a huge amount, but almost all of it has been through work. I spent five years stationed in London in the special services of the American Air Force, producing and directing shows for the troops, which I absolutely loved.

Larry Hagman

#11. Perhaps what should make you feel better is the thought I would kill you, that I'm obsessed with you enough to do that. I'd rather you not live than that you live apart from me.

John Wiltshire