All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Mayakovsky has an essay called How to Write Poems where he says that a poet must spend time and effort choosing the uniquely appropriate words, force them into the rhythm of the poem and then test it out loud ten times or more. Vertov did something very similar at the editing table. A hundred tests, a thousand different variants, endless numbers of try-outs--for meaning, for imagery, for rhythm--and finally, after long intensive efforts, that feeling of joy: it works. . .

Elizaveta Svilova

If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

Imre Lakatos

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Alice Walker

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

David Hume

The meaning of life for human beings is to serve one another for the survival of humanity and the advancement of civilization.

Newton Lee

First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

Virginia Woolf

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

Matt Stone

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

Kurtis Blow

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Aisha Tyler

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Tennyson