“It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.”
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People Quotes — page 951 of 5018
“There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.”
“Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.”
“They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.”
“Mad people = People who stand alone and burn. I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.”
“With more people, there are more voices to tune out.”
“the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.”
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have.”
“I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.”
“People tend to become cynical about even the most appalling crisis if it seems to be dragging on, failing to come to term.”
“Fear binds people together. And fear disperses them. Courage inspires communities: the courage of an example - for courage is as contagious as fear. But courage, certain kinds of courage, can also isolate the brave.”
“One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.”
“The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent areseen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with glitter in his hair.”
“Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.”
“When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.”
“You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.”
“Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.”
“Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.”
“People don't become inured to what they are shown - if that's the right way to describe what happens - because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling. The states described as apathy, moral or emotional anesthesia, are full of feelings; the feelings are rage and frustration.”
“I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers.”