“They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Context: They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is shall shadow
The man that pretends to be.
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20th century English author 1888–1965Related quotes
“Constantly nourish love for your dream, so that one day that dream becomes reality.”
Original: Nutri costantemente amore per il tuo sogno, affinché un giorno quel sogno diventi realtà.
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1920s, Notes on Democracy (1926)
Context: For what democracy needs most of all is a party that will separate the good that is in it theoretically from the evils that beset it practically, and then try to erect that good into a workable system. What it needs beyond everything is a party of liberty. It produces, true enough, occasional libertarians, just as despotism produces occasional regicides, but it treats them in the same drum-head way. It will never have a party of them until it invents and installs a genuine aristocracy, to breed them and secure them.
The Poverty of Philosophy
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 1 (2001)
"The Composer on His Work : Meditation on a Twelve-Tone Horse", in Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music : A Continuing Symposium (1996) edited by Richard Kostelanetz and Joseph Darby
Source: 1930 - 1941, from 'Arshile Gorky, – Goats on the roof' (2009), p. 132: in a letter to his sister Vartush Mooradian, after Mai 1938
Interviewed in The New Yorker, May 7, 1955.