"Electioneering"
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)
“Virtue, if not in action, is a vice,
And, when we move not forward, we go backward.”
The Maid of Honour (c. 1621; printed 1632), Act I, scene i.
(1964) Post-election statement. Virginia Morell, Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings, Copyright 1995, Chapter 19, beginning.
29-Jun-2005, Radio Derby
I think he's covered all the angles there.
“You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.”
Source: Bloodfever
Kierkegaard Journals and Papers 1A, 86 September 29, 1835
1830s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1830s
Context: It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat — as is the case with the better artists. But it does not seem right that they stop with the historical themes already given and, so to speak, think that only these are suitable for poetic treatment, because these particular themes, which intrinsically are no more poetic than others, are now again animated and inspirited by a great poetic nature. In this case the artists advance by marching on the spot. — Why are modern heroes and the like not just as poetic? Is it because there is so much emphasis on clothing the content in order that the formal aspect can be all the more finished?
Eragon, on entering the Vault of Souls
Inheritance (2011)
1970s, First Presidential address (1974)
