“What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?” IfsMenYearsBelieveReasonFactsObjectsPoliticianRateRationalInsaneRanExecutivesSecretaryChairmanSelectiveUndesirable Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy
“All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.” BelievePersonsArtFactsTodayAliveObjectsCreatingMereWorks Of ArtPreyLive For TodayKitsch Author:Gillo Dorfles
“Men, not only in Turkish society but everywhere, have been the bosses in terms of creation. If you look at art history, women were the objects. The fact that it's not been made by women means that the subjects are not women.” IfsMenLooksMeanHas BeensArtMadeFactsTermSubjectsCreationObjectsBossTurkishArt History Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.” IfsNeedsYearsFactsWould BePurposeUniverseCommonSecretObjectsYears AgoEssenceNotionAppearanceCommon SenseLayers Author:Michio Kaku
“Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.” FactsTogetherObjectsHatredEnvyPursue Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.” MenFactsLyingObjectsSane Author:H. L. Mencken
“My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.” IfsMeanDoeFactsHandsFormChanceFatePossibilityObjectsBuiltFairsComplexesInevitablePoolElectricGrammarFascinationInconsistencyNo RespectSecond HandLuggageDenverInanimate ObjectsInevitable Fate Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“In industrialized warfare, where the representation of events outstripped the presentation of facts, the image was starting to gain sway over the object, time over space. Soon a conflict of strategic and political interpretation would ensue, with radio and then radar completing the picture.” FactsPoliticalSpaceEventsObjectsConflictGainsStartingRadioInterpretationWarfareRepresentationStrategicPresentationRadarCompleting Author:Paul Virilio
“Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful instrument of imbuing value in an object than parting with it.” WayFactsSeemsValuesLossPowerfulObjectsInstrumentsDepthPartingBetter Ways Author:Vera Nazarian
“It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.” ReasonFactsSexFocusObjectsCivilizationWomen Beauty Author:Hugh Hefner
“To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to 'fly' as far as eagles under our own power.” WorldHumansFactsAbilityHuman NatureObjectsLimitsWingsChanging The WorldEaglesLamentAbility To Change Author:Noam Chomsky