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Robert Conquest Quotes

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.

Robert Conquest

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: July 15, 1917 - August 3, 2015

Topics

Commitment Peace Think Warm Moral

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

Art Wake Up Picture Portrait Museum

You're always just one punch away from getting hurt. But look, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I think I'm going to walk out of this sport of boxing when I think it's the right time.

Time Walk Think Hurt You Look

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

Good Past Enough I Can Say Way

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

Love Good Fear Music Great Politics

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.

You More Save Than Lot Designed

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Live Together World More Same Far

In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.

Bird Beach New York End You Street

So many famous iconic American songs are protest songs, and I think that the vast majority of artists will only continue to add to that body of work.

Work Think Famous American Body

People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Fear Purpose People Act Historical

I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

House Grandfather Old First Through

I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.

Think Group Original Dig Underrated

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Opinion Wolf Reality Sheep Useless

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