“ What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline. Theodor W. Adorno
“ In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance. Eric Ambler
“ Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd, and inaccessible he is, the more he will be recognized, praised, spoiled, idolatrized. In som… Mircea Eliade
“ In so many ways, for so many people, freedom was still an illusion. Barrie thought of the statistics she had read about how many women and children were still enslaved all over the world. Now— not thr… Martina Boone
