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Herbert Read Quotes

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

Herbert Read

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: December 4, 1893 - June 12, 1968

Topics

Religion New Civilization Will Out

There's something really interesting about having those close friends that you've had incredible times with but growing up and away from them. The underlying tensions, the shifting in the group dynamic, the little lies you tell to big yourself up: it's something that happens to us all.

John Simm

Yourself Growing Up Interesting You

My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home to one of the great jyotirlings, the Kashi Vishwanath temple.

Amish Tripathi

Family Father Home Great Mathematics

As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down.

Spike Jonze

Push You Down Hard Excited Concepts

When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.

Slavoj Zizek

Love Someone I Can Aggressive Show

When people come to my shows, they're like, 'I can't believe you can actually freaking sing!'

Rita Ora

People Believe You Sing Come Like

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?

Rodney Brooks

People Me Questions Robots Want

I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.

Robert Winston

School War World Eating Remember

I'm not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

Roseanne Barr

Me Think Become President Politician

There's something very special about playing for Liverpool.

Mohamed Salah

Special Playing Something Very About

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Jose Rizal

Great Lie American Dream Hand May

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

Jon Meacham

Faith Thought Political Complicated

Before 9/11 there were weak procedures, willingness, and mechanisms for communicating among agencies for foreign intelligence and the FBI with its focus on law enforcement. The domestic-vs.-foreign barrier has been solved by the reforms after 9/11 that established the DNI.

Dennis C. Blair

Focus Intelligence Law Weak FBI