S T A L K E R Monolith Quotes

#1. The crew of Apollo 8, who at Christmas, 1968, became the first men ever to set eyes upon the Lunar Farside, told me that they had been tempted to radio back the discovery of a large black monolith: alas, discretion prevailed.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Muhammad Ali

#3. I was torturing her. Guilt was her poison, and I was pouring it down her throat.

Rebecca Donovan

#4. You hide a Sun-powered device in darkness - only if you want to know when it is brought out into the light. In other words, the monolith may be some kind of alarm. And we have triggered it.

Arthur C. Clarke

#5. Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

Clare Boothe Luce

#6. While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West that justifies the rap culture thinks that every Muslim terrorist bombing is an expression of economic angst or social alienation.

Ben Shapiro

#7. The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Barbara Tuchman

#8. Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.

H.P. Lovecraft

#9. The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Bell Hooks

#10. If you are rigorous in your own R&D in whatever your area is, you do your own testing, and you really stress-test the thing that you do, I think that gives you a tremendous amount of inner fortitude when you come up against the monolith.

Brian Koppelman

#11. I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.

Suzanne Finnamore

#12. So many people among non-scientists see science as an unassailable monolith of truth, and it's not. It's an ongoing self-correcting process.

Kitty Ferguson

#13. Science, Government, Education, Art, the cultural monolith may be said to exist primarily to exercise a paternal influence, decorously if possible, aggressively if necessary, to enforce certain accepted images upon individuals.

Eleanor Antin

#14. When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

Jean Baudrillard

#15. The epithet "monolithic" is often used as a term of praise in this country; but a monolith is a mass of stone. Human beings are far more complex.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#16. The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

Randy Falco

#17. Everything we did in the 1960s was designed to fission, to weaken faith in and conformity to the 1950s social order. Our precise surgical target was the Judeo-Christian power monolith, which has imposed a guilty, inhibited, grim, anti-body, anti-life repression on Western civilization.

Timothy Leary

#18. Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.

Stephen Covey

#19. I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.

Jon Stewart

#20. Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith.

Jim Webb

#21. Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

Curtis Grant

#22. The relativists' stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.

Alan Sokal

#23. Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.

Prince Charles

#24. Take the risk, it could lead to something beautiful.

Lovely Goyal

#25. Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

Kevin Hearne

#26. Your purpose can be fulfilled only during the time you are given on earth to accomplish it.

Myles Munroe

#27. Memories were movable, he was discovering. They weren't etched in stone like some monolith testimony to the eons, as he'd once imagined.

R. Brady Frost

#28. I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

Nina Easton

#29. When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to the people, to the masses, and breaking it out of the clubbiness of the art world, which is a monolith.

Jeffrey Deitch

#30. I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith.

Richard Greenberg

#32. The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

David Lee Roth