Cornelius Castoriadis Quotes

#1. I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

Jules Breton

#2. I really like world music. I used to think it was simple but it's far from that.

Jake Holmes

#3. So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

Mona Simpson

#4. Who do you call a civilian in a guerilla war? I mean, it might be a farmer by day or a merchant, a housewife, and by night the housewife may be helping to make landmines and booby traps and who knows.

Tim O'Brien

#5. Tell her parents they made a big mistake calling the police. Call off the dogs," said the caller, "or we'll hurt Madison. Permanently. If you back off, she'll stay alive and well, but either way, the Tylers will never see their daughter

James Patterson

#6. You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here ... We grow our own troubles
it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.

Larry McMurtry

#7. Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the community to participate in the decisions and institutions that shape their lives must be continually debated, safeguarded, and preserved at all costs.

Henry Giroux

#8. I do not fight with the world but the world fights with me.

Gautama Buddha

#9. Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.

Cornelius Castoriadis

#10. They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Lauren Willig

#11. When I went to the scientific doctor
I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me
and reduce me to the level of a thing.
So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

D.H. Lawrence