Top 19 Joy Davidman Quotes
#1. Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
Dante Alighieri
#2. The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no longer likes anything.
Joy Davidman
#3. Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.
E.W. Howe
#4. See yourself in the mirror, you're separate from yourself. See the world in the mirror, you're separate from the world. I don't want that separation anymore.
Joy Davidman
#5. Anyone who studies our poisonous drugs, our denatured food, our deathtrap automobiles and houses, our lung-rotting cities, must concede that we accept a good deal of murder as inevitable simply because it is done to make or save money.
Joy Davidman
#6. If people were able to be convinced that art is precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artists?
Marshall McLuhan
#7. No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.
Joy Davidman
#8. In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.
Yoko Ono
#9. At the best of times, democracy is a seesaw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion. You see, to make a democratic omelette you have to break a few democratic eggs. To fight fascism and other evil forces threatening our country, there is nothing wrong in taking strong measures.
Rohinton Mistry
#10. I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute.
Joy Davidman
#11. Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.
Joy Davidman
#12. I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.
Joy Davidman
#14. What war did for him (hasten disillusionment with communism), childbirth did for me. I began to notice what neglected, neurotic waifs the children of Communists were and to question the genuineness of the love of mankind that didn't begin at home.
Joy Davidman
#15. We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.
Joy Davidman
#16. I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress.
Joy Davidman
#17. I believe in the World as in a daisy.
Because I see it. But I don't think about it
Because thinking is not understanding ...
Fernando Pessoa
#19. I became a communist because later on I was going to become a Christian.
Joy Davidman
