Quotations about:
    individuals


Note not all quotations have been tagged, so Search may find additional quotes on this topic.


No people are uninteresting.
Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.

Nothing in them is not particular,
and planet is dissimilar from planet.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-2017) Russian poet, writer, film director, academic [Евге́ний Евтуше́нко, Evgenij Evtušenko]
“People [Lyudi]” (1961), l. 1ff [tr. Milner-Gulland/Levi (1967)]
    (Source)
 
Added on 18-Jul-22 | Last updated 18-Jul-22
Link to this post | No comments
Topics: , , ,
More quotes by Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

What is wrong then? The system. But when you’ve said that you’ve said nothing. The system, after all, is only the outcome of the human psyche, the human desires. We shout and blame the machine. But who on earth makes the machine, if we don’t? And any alterations in the system are only modifications in the machine. The system is in us, it is not something external to us. The machine is in us, or it would never come out of us. Well then, there’s nothing to blame but ourselves, and there’s nothing to change except inside ourselves.

David Herbert "D. H." Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist
“Education of the People,” Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine (1925)
 
Added on 16-Feb-16 | Last updated 16-Feb-16
Link to this post | No comments
Topics: , , , , , , , ,
More quotes by Lawrence, D. H.

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

Gore Vidal (1925-2012) American novelist, dramatist, critic
“The Twelve Caesars,” United States (1993)
 
Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 28-Jan-20
Link to this post | No comments
Topics: , , , ,
More quotes by Vidal, Gore